ahh i forgot to reply to u bout this on myspace

2 every1 else: he linked me to a story about a robbery/murder happening in the town kai works in, tinley park, il

violence isn\'t growing really, death rates are always on the decline in the us. i do however think the media in our country sensationalizes violence more, you hear about every little thing that goes wrong because they want people scared for one reason or another.

personally i dont feel scared most of the time. crime happens in and around every major city of the world. i\'m just happy that i dont look like the first guy u\'d wanna mug haha. if u end up traveling anywhere(which u should) your gonna end up seeing that crime is everywhere not just in the us. i\'m used to it i guess, but someday if/when i\'m old i will move somewhere small and quiet w/ no crime, maybe minsk!


the story u linked me to tho, theres nothing really you can do to protect yourself from a freak occurance like that so why worry about it. best you can do is stay out of shitty areas and away from shady people.

/ramble

I would have to agree with Tommy and Kai, in that violence exist everywhere. One can only take so many precautions before it turns to paranoia.  
I myself, live in Chicago, in what I consider a bad, if not ghetto, neighborhood; its ridden with gangs, drugs, dropouts, shootings, and sonstant cops partolling (which should only verify that I live in a bad neighborhood). Yet, I feel at ease walking around. In fact I\'ve walked around at all hours of the day and nothing happened. I used sneak out between 1-3am to clear my head and walk around, Nothing happens. Part of it, I learned is to keep to yourself.
Yet, I\'d like to note that subburbs, great suburban america scares me. Take Park Ridge, a subburb located just northwest of CHicago, there you can find huge beautiful homes surrounded by green, yet at night, there are no street lights or cops to be found (thats cuz they\'re on the main roads waiting to pull you over for speeding). Its hard to make out my friend\'s housese let alone their addresses. A number of things can happen, which like Kai mentioned have (and to clarify, no one was draged out of said car). You need to look at the context and circumstance under each violent crime that happens. Take rape, 90% of rape occurs from people we know. Now, I\'m not going to live in fear of every man, or woman, that I know, and think they\'re going to rape me. But it happens.   Or take guns and ask yourself, why were they created? To hurt, if not kill you from a far range. So the whole point of someone at close range holding a gun to your face is stupid if they wanted to kill you, but its probably to scare you if not have some sort of power over you. Now, I\'m not telling people to not comply or try to overcome someone holding a gun to your face, but act rationally. If they wanted to kill you they would have done it already, if they didn\'t want something from you (AGAIN, don\'t argue me on this)

There\'s a Moorish proverb that says

\"He who fears something gives it power over him.\"

You racist.

Why is that?:dry:

I dont really think a gun ban is a smart move, on the crime part

a significant number of crimes are stopped or resolved due to legal gun ownership, from off duty police officers, people with concealed carry licences like myself, and other law abiding citizens. Crimes commited with guns are not done with guns that are gotten legally, because there\'s alot of paperwork, in a legal setting that\'ll link your gun and your bullets back to you. If you take away all the guns, you\'re just going to take them from the people who got them through the proper channels, and all the bad guys would have even more control.

as for being afraid of crime? not really, infact the only reason I\'m licenced is because I like to go to the target range, and I dont want to be fined if I\'m found with a gun in my car or what have you and it\'s not in plain site.