So apparently there was a shooting in my hood tonight. I've been working way too many late nights recently and I decided to go out and blow off some steam with some workmates in SoHo. Then when I got back to my road I saw that there was a cop car parked around the corner from my house, and some flourescent tape blocking off the end of the block.
I assumed there'd been a car accident or something and I stopped off to get a soda from the deli on the corner. From what I could tell from the upset girl in the shop, it seemed that someone had done a drive-by and had hit a fast-food delivery driver and another guy in the arm.
So anyway, while this is pretty freaky and definitely doesn't occur very often back at home, at the end of the day it doesn't make me scared. It was definitely a score-settling. Why would you do a drive-by unless the guy owed you money? I feel really bad for the delivery driver though - I hope he wasn't from my local!
Anyway I digress - what's with this x amendment right to own a gun? Wasn't that written during the times of the Minutemen, when there was the need to defend the newly born Republic from remonarchisation by the oppresive British? Not to mention the Native Americans, or the imported African and Chinese plantation and railroad workers. There's really no need for civilian guns anymore.
Okay so I'm not anti-hunting or anything. I don't get buzzed by the idea of hunting for the sake of killing an animal, but it's not something I've ever done either so I'm pretty laissez-faire about it. So let all the hunters in states where you can go out shooting animals keep their shotguns. But seriously, who really needs a handgun to defend themselves unless it's from someone else with another handgun? And don't even get me started on assault rifles.
I assumed there'd been a car accident or something and I stopped off to get a soda from the deli on the corner. From what I could tell from the upset girl in the shop, it seemed that someone had done a drive-by and had hit a fast-food delivery driver and another guy in the arm.
So anyway, while this is pretty freaky and definitely doesn't occur very often back at home, at the end of the day it doesn't make me scared. It was definitely a score-settling. Why would you do a drive-by unless the guy owed you money? I feel really bad for the delivery driver though - I hope he wasn't from my local!
Anyway I digress - what's with this x amendment right to own a gun? Wasn't that written during the times of the Minutemen, when there was the need to defend the newly born Republic from remonarchisation by the oppresive British? Not to mention the Native Americans, or the imported African and Chinese plantation and railroad workers. There's really no need for civilian guns anymore.
Okay so I'm not anti-hunting or anything. I don't get buzzed by the idea of hunting for the sake of killing an animal, but it's not something I've ever done either so I'm pretty laissez-faire about it. So let all the hunters in states where you can go out shooting animals keep their shotguns. But seriously, who really needs a handgun to defend themselves unless it's from someone else with another handgun? And don't even get me started on assault rifles.
