Pellet guns don't count as being strapped...
Great question. Idk the answers to all this stuff. I know we all grew up differently. And that reality for people is very different depending on where you live at.
The Hood, the trailer parks , the mansions, the middle class. We all live different realities. It’s usually very difficult for a person from one of those groups to understand or relate to the others from a different environment unless they came from that.
Put yourself in 8 year old inner city kids shoes for just a second, where danger is around every corner.
Rapist, Robbers, Killers, Pimps, Dealers, Gangs, Drugs And fiends all run rampant. You just want to simply walk to the store and buy some chips in peace.
You’re trying to live your life on the straight and narrow. Just living to 18 is a big accomplishment for you...... want to go to college.
On your walk to the store, your paranoid. Lots of drive bys in your community, so you watching every car that passes you closely. Get to the store and the robbers rob you at gunpoint for your little $20.
Now you gotta walk back to the house. It’s some dudes from a neighborhood that hates your neighborhood approach you ask where you from. They jump you 6 vs 1. Now you got knots and bruises and face a little bloody.
Your not a street guy or a tough guy. Just a kid trying to live like everyone else.
Finally get back to your block and some deranged fiend stabs you hoping that you’ve got some extra money so he can get a fix.
If you are this 8 year old kid what are you to do?
1. Your neighborhood arms dealer is around? You go try to rake leaves, Mow peoples yard, shovel snow in hopes you can make enough to buy a piece?
2. The gang in your neighborhood is recruiting you at that age. Offering protection where you don’t have to get jumped anymore, beat on, they got guns, and ways for you to earn money. And you get the “family” aspect by having 100+ other gang members who all are willing to do whatever. Do you join?
3. Do you hope and pray you make it to 18? Going to church with mom on Sundays. Trying to play sports to avoid all the ****. Practice keeps you out the neighborhood more?
4. Some other choice?
Curious what you guys on this board think or would do if you are that child?
Reality means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I’m thankful I never had to grow up in fear. I think it’s important that we see the world through other people’s life experiences. We can get complacent, especially if we’ve never really experienced the rougher side of life. I’ve never been wealthy but I’m thankful for everythingGreat question. Idk the answers to all this stuff. I know we all grew up differently. And that reality for people is very different depending on where you live at.
The Hood, the trailer parks , the mansions, the middle class. We all live different realities. It’s usually very difficult for a person from one of those groups to understand or relate to the others from a different environment unless they came from that.
Put yourself in 8 year old inner city kids shoes for just a second, where danger is around every corner.
Rapist, Robbers, Killers, Pimps, Dealers, Gangs, Drugs And fiends all run rampant. You just want to simply walk to the store and buy some chips in peace.
You’re trying to live your life on the straight and narrow. Just living to 18 is a big accomplishment for you...... want to go to college.
On your walk to the store, your paranoid. Lots of drive bys in your community, so you watching every car that passes you closely. Get to the store and the robbers rob you at gunpoint for your little $20.
Now you gotta walk back to the house. It’s some dudes from a neighborhood that hates your neighborhood approach you ask where you from. They jump you 6 vs 1. Now you got knots and bruises and face a little bloody.
Your not a street guy or a tough guy. Just a kid trying to live like everyone else.
Finally get back to your block and some deranged fiend stabs you hoping that you’ve got some extra money so he can get a fix.
If you are this 8 year old kid what are you to do?
1. Your neighborhood arms dealer is around? You go try to rake leaves, Mow peoples yard, shovel snow in hopes you can make enough to buy a piece?
2. The gang in your neighborhood is recruiting you at that age. Offering protection where you don’t have to get jumped anymore, beat on, they got guns, and ways for you to earn money. And you get the “family” aspect by having 100+ other gang members who all are willing to do whatever. Do you join?
3. Do you hope and pray you make it to 18? Going to church with mom on Sundays. Trying to play sports to avoid all the ****. Practice keeps you out the neighborhood more?
4. Some other choice?
Curious what you guys on this board think or would do if you are that child?
You did better on that burger today, but next time not so much mustard. Keep it up, and soon you'll graduate to fries, GOOD LUCK!!!
It's called empathy. There's so little these days … by anyone.Reality means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I’m thankful I never had to grow up in fear. I think it’s important that we see the world through other people’s life experiences. We can get complacent, especially if we’ve never really experienced the rougher side of life. I’ve never been wealthy but I’m thankful for everything
Wow....Im one who voted for those people that made those ridiculous gun laws. Props to the 8 year old carrying a gun because that's dope as ****
Wow....
If cops decide to quit doing their jobs then they should be terminated.It’s common knowledge within law enforcement. They’re done running to calls only to put their families and futures in jeopardy. Haven’t you wondered why Gang/gun violence Has exploded. Would you put yourself in that position if you knew you couldn’t win, even if you did everything the way you thought would help the most. No one is that dumb. They’ll answer the call and get a report tomorrow. Today isn’t happening anymore. It is what it is.
Call it what you want. It doesn't take a mental giant to know that the behavior displayed in that video is wrong in every way possible. Way to keep it real on the internet. You da man!!Fist to cuffs. Clearly a mental giant.
It’s common knowledge within law enforcement. They’re done running to calls only to put their families and futures in jeopardy. Haven’t you wondered why Gang/gun violence Has exploded. Would you put yourself in that position if you knew you couldn’t win, even if you did everything the way you thought would help the most. No one is that dumb. They’ll answer the call and get a report tomorrow. Today isn’t happening anymore. It is what it is.
Lol too funny, KevinCane Face, please tell me the statistics of people locked up in jail for smoking NOT distributing pot? I believe the answer is minuscule. This country has allowed the left to dictate lawlessness, anarchy, violence, and make the police out as the enemy. This is not the country I grew up in and is changing rapidly. I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message!
Really lmao turn on CNN or CNBC. There’s a nice older Wealthy lady in San Francisco named Nancy Pelosi. She’s the wealthiest woman in Congress. You might want to look her up. Stop Lying
Several congress members were caught selling millions in stocks before the shutdowns were announced, and coincidentally around that time they also decide to invest in companies that produced work-from-home technology . There absolutely are people rooting for and profiting from this ****Really lmao turn on CNN or CNBC. There’s a nice older Wealthy lady in San Francisco named Nancy Pelosi. She’s the wealthiest woman in Congress. You might want to look her up. Stop Lying
Lol. You think cops in Minneapolis, Austin, Reno, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, NYC, NY etc voluntarily 'stood down'?!?If cops decide to quit doing their jobs then they should be terminated.
Cops have never prevented violence. They have always been proactive and not reactive. No one cares how they feel, tbh
Lol. You think cops in Minneapolis, Austin, Reno, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, NYC, NY etc voluntarily 'stood down'?!?
The historical purpose of the police in America was not to protect everyone. It was to protect the property of those with property. Policing has certainly evolved past that but only because of demands, not because the average cop wants to go and police the hood. 99% of cops love policing when it means doing it in a middle class or better neighborhood. But ask them to go where the majority of crime occurs and they turn into the mafia don in The Godfather “they’re animals anyway so let them lose their souls”.Policing has always been designed for certain people and to accomplish certain goals. To defund, reallocate, restructure, or whatever you want to call it, will be a problem to the establishment who truly understands the purpose of the police.