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I'm a bald head Samsonite Rastafari with a liking for politics, media, sociology, psychology, economics, ganja and other topics.
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*Facepalm*. As much as these people will attack reality TV or social media for turning people into “sheep,” they’ve let themselves be distracted from genuine issues that only require a bit of patience to uncover the depth of. By fantasy end-of-the-world role play. In the end people fighting for improvements on real social, infrastructure, government, and economic issues are left holding mountains of pages in their hand as they try to convince people, entirely caught up in the bullshit of government-trained Colorado shooters, Mayan calanders, and missing planes, that several real issues are pressing and in need of immediate attention. If only books and documents had as much sex appeal as YouTube videos about dynamite in the World Trade Center….
Dunno if I posted this already….
Power to the people! Bringing awareness to a subject can be enough to significantly turn up the heat for change.
Certainly the job isn’t done yet, but keeping this persistently at the front of NYC politics (and sometimes Federal politics) will certainly facilitate and maintain the environment necessary to dialogue and push for successful and cooperative change for the better.
Shine a light into the darkness.
Woah, constitutional search and seizure infringement much? The ability to see whether or not I’m carrying a large piece of metal is not the legal equivalent of a frisk. If we could trust the NYPD to honestly use the technology only in the pursuit or weapons and objects that legitimately look like weapons the idea wouldn’t be a huge problem. But we all know the NYPD is known for their routine abuse of police power, and love for dancing over the line of constitutional rights either legally or illegally. Either way, it’s ultimately a shame. This technology would have so much promise for increasing safety on the streets and lowering the invasive need for stop and frisks if it was put into the hands of a professional and trustworthy police force.
‘Weapons-free zones’ bill introduced (via State Street Wire)
This bill assumes that the problem with gun control in Newark and Camden, NJ is
the lack of strong gun laws. Maybe attacking the economic and social
problems would be more effective, giving residents less of a reason to turn
to Black Market economies and therefore less need for illegal weapons. Or
perhaps target the means of getting weapons into the state. Stronger
legislation is effective in the presence of no or weak legislation. When
guns are already heavily illegal it doesn’t help to make them more illegal.
And when the motives for possessing a gun are so intertwined with the need
to survive, little punishment can hold more weight.
TRENTON – A bill has been introduced to allow towns to adopt “weapons
free’’ zones around schools, day care centers and other facilities.
Damn, what the fuck crack can do
After watching the video from the Septa bus shooting, all I can think of is how badly crack fucked up Black America.
The way one relates to the other is sadly simple. Anywhere drug black markets go, so does violence. Compound that with poverty and unemployed young men and you’ll get an enormous demand for weapons in the same black market. The result is a lot of people going through the normal rigors of puberty, with the access to firearms. Knowing how impulsive hormonal teens are as is, the result only becomes more deadly with the addition of a weapon as a “solution” to problems.
Fast forward a few decades and you get the generations that learned to use those same methods to solve problems. A sibling society in action. That’s why you get people that think it’s O.K. to do things like this.
