It is reprehensible that WE as a society allow this to happen. I am sick about this and all of the other violent crime that is allowed to go on in our country un-checked and even apologized for by our school system, politicians, and feel good social programs that look to make excuses for these criminals and apply light sentences if they are even caught. I am just as guilty here, being a “good” person who moved away from NYC to a gated community in VA where I won’t have to have my family exposed to this type of crime, rather than stay and try to clean it up.
The problem seems almost insurmountable to me though. The way I see it, as long as we have a huge welfare state that grows up to believe that they are owed something for nothing, and get violent when they don’t get it, we will never break the cycle of this cancer in our country. It seems that violence is excused everywhere now in our inner cities. As if it’s just another inconvenient fact of life that we all must now live with. It seems to me that our courts often plea bargain these crimes down. It also seems to me that a huge proportion of crime is committed over and over again by the same criminals.
I am not a LEO and perhaps I have no idea what I’m talking about, but perhaps, WE should be taking to the streets in peaceful demonstrations in all of our inner cities and demand that crime be punished so extremely that it be almost eradicated.
I say we ZUMBO crime. We need to make every elected politician, judge, district attorney, and police department know we are fed up with these animals roaming free and preying on our citizens.
Just a thought, but if WE, as a society cannot protect our weakest among us, but rather allow them to fall prey to vicious predators, then WE deserve no less than what we have. Crime will continue to encroach on our lives, and we’ll build bigger walls and carry more ammo. This must end, or surely it will end us.
mk
