Love & Personals – Growing up in Los Angeles ain't easy!! "Everyone thinks Hollywood is so glamorous, but I have news for you. It is really dangerous growing up in L.A. People have guns. SometimesI think I'm going crazy. I'm going to get out of here just as soon as I can." Zavier,aged 18
yes it's terrible place where kids must grow up
Most kids MUST not grow up there; they usually leave home, anywhere USA, hitchike or pimp themselves to Hollywood to fantasize about "making it in Hollywood" - all puerile dreams, characterized by a poor grip on reality!
It's true also, that in far too many homes in these United States there is no meaningful interaction, just Mom, Dad and kids gliding - like ships in the night! - past one another under the same roof...
Even with the best of intentions, our personalities and superficial public schooling will - with a few exceptions - not be a match against the diabolical, cleverly thought-out marketing trics that Capitalism employs to enhance its bottomline!
>>More guns in the hands of law abiding citizens equals less crime
That's could be true, but it's debatable.
- It might make someone think twice about committing a crime against another.
- It might also make that someone shoot first
- It could also lead to more accidental shootings, especially without any type of licensing requiring training. After all, we need a license to drive & get married.
- And it could lead to an increase in injuries & deaths in fits of rage. Where an unarmed person may either attack someone with their bare hands of a less damaging weapon, or even think twice about attacking someone in a rage for fear of retaliation, an armed person can easily pull out a gun and start shooting. There are reports in papers every day about someone being shot during an argument. It takes more guts to attack someone close up than to pull out a gun at 20 paces & pull the trigger.
It could... It might...
Ever tried to just pull a 9mm or a .380 at twenty paces and hit? Fast? While the target was armed and moving? Didn't think so.
When you're about to get married, do they ask you if you're insane, a drug addict, or ever been incarcerated?
I read papers "every day" and I don't see these supposed events.
Don't cry Wolf.
So none of you can even admit that the possibilities exist. Interesting.
Let's take your ==>The victim does not need to be armes, only some bystandard, who can take his/her time to aim and put a big hole in their chest of the attacker.
a step further. Someone's getting attacked. A few people pull out guns & start firing. The police show up as all these "bystanders" are aiming at the attacker. How, exactly, would the police know who's the good guy & who's the bad guy?
I am sick about hearing about better education. Piles and piles of money have been thrown at this notion with no results. California barely rates on the educational stats, and WHY ? Tell me WHY? I'll tell you why, because the money is going somewhere else, and as a native California I am disgusted in what I have seen through the years involving preferential treatment especially for those that don't pay taxes. California is overtaxed and overregulated, and with all of the money being collected the roads should and ought to be paved in GOLD !
Good old Hollywood. Land of hyper-reality. so many mixed messages about what reality is, and it is everywhere there is a TV set.So much is promised via advertising and not delivered.Things simply don't come as easy as a picture show depicts. Then one is let down, constantly. Can't imagine why so many are depressed. I hope the lad got out of glitterville.
I live in Chicago. In a not-so-great-but-changing neighborhood. Chicago is over 9 million people. We do not have concealed weapons laws allowing everyone to carry a gun. I have never owned a gun nor do I think I will. I have been the victim of the occasional crime, but nothing life threatening. I grew up in Texas where you can carry a gun. It's encouraged. I was in a suburb of maybe 250K
people. I never felt safe there.
More guns aren't the answer. Tougher crime laws are the answer.
Perso
hamy,
Re: We do not have concealed weapons laws allowing everyone to carry a gun.
CHICAGO:
Some 4,300 guns have been collected through the annual "Gun Turn-In" events, according to Vance Henry, director of the police department's Chicago Community Alternative Policing Strategies. CAPS and religious leaders serve as sponsors, with corporate support.
Chicago prohibits residents from keeping handguns unless they were registered with police before 1983. Nonetheless, guns are involved in 80 percent of the city's murders, Mayor Richard Daley said. To date, there have been 225 homicides in Chicago, the police department said.
Proponents of the gun-amnesty program emphasized the toll that gun violence has taken on young people. So far this year, several Chicago students have perished in gang-related shootings.
"Every gun turned in is potentially another life saved," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined Daley on Tuesday.
Re: "Every gun turned in is potentially another life saved," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined Daley on Tuesday.
CHICAGO - City officials again will use the carrot approach to reducing the number of guns in Chicago, by offering a $100 pre-paid gift card for each weapon turned in this weekend.
Mayor Richard Daley said no questions will be asked Saturday of people who visit one of 23 locations designated as drop-off sites. The surrendered handguns, shotguns and rifles they leave behind will be destroyed by police.
"One of the best crime-fighting strategies at our disposal is very simple -- getting guns off our streets -- and out of the hands of people who, unfortunately, would misuse them," Daley said during a news conference at a Near North Side church. Drop-off sites will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For information about locations, call (312) 744-5000.
Good comment tuxedoxpress ! just the facts and reality of living in the "greater" Los Angeles. Also "hope" does nothing except for delay the inevitable that central LA is a hell hole, and no one will take care of cleaning it up including the corruption. Its mayor is a joke, haven't you heard about his affair with the channel 52 blond ? and police won't go into armed gang infested hot zones.
I grew up and continue to live in Minnesota. I've never owned a gun and have never needed one. The drive to have money wasn't as big as the drive to have fun - choose a profession I loved, a man that made me laugh, kids who spent most of their lives smiling - was my goal. I don't stop and look at myself in the mirror every time I pass one, and I don't let crime run my life - there just isn't a lot of it here. I have a great life. And I have never had the desire to visit California. IMO and as I see it portrayed, altho it may not be true, Calif. doesn't seem to have a soul to it.
Wow I thought this article was really depressing- what a horrible way to grow up- all alone and self absorbed.
I really can't get over how many young people are having plastic surgery now. I think it is really disgusting and shows what a intolerant world we live in. Everyone wants the same cookie cutter look lest they be that big bad word-different.
Nobody is comfortable being unique anymore. I hate it.
**More guns in the hands of law abiding citizens equals less crime
--wrong...more guns means more people feeling immortal and taking justice(their own interpretation) into their own hands.
**You can blame the gun grabbing laws in California for a lot of these problems
--wrong...you can blame the PEOPLE; the guns had very little choice in the matter
When I was a kid I used to get in a lot of fist fights.
As a late bloomer, I appeared to be an easy target for bullies. i developed the 'prison attitude' : Bow up, don't back down. When I was a teen I carried a knife. A kid jumped me one time (new school) and I pulled my knife. I was crazed!
Adults intervened and no one got hurt. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had been packing heat.
Just like the world around us. Kids haven't changed that much ...but the arms race IS ON!
RULE NUMBER 1 TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM - USE A GUN (OR ANY OTHER DEADLY WEAPON), GO TO JAIL! NO EXEPTIONS, NO EXCUSES! NO AGE LIMIT! NO NOTHING. USE A GUN, GO TO JAIL! BANGERS, KIDS, CRIMINALS, ORDINARY FOLKS WHO USE A GUN OUTSIDE THE LAW, POLITICIANS, ANYBODY! DO A CRINE AND YOU GET 5 YEARS THE FIRST TIME, 10 YEARS THE SECOND TIME AND LIFE THE THIRD TIME. BETCHA GUN CRIME WOULD GO DOWN! SIMPLE AS PIE!
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~MAKE A RULE against GUNS .~>>>>
Do you really think the bad guys will follow that 'rule?'
Yeah!Take the guns off law-abiding citizens, and the recidivists can feel free to victimize the same. Good idea befound1....NOT!