Heart breaking prayers for Vada and family....sickening that so much hate and anger and so often innocent women are the causalities...Yes, another random shooting and yes, just happens the victim is female yet again but why so many males on the streets of NYC openly using guns...?
In The NY Post exclusive one of these creeps openly shot his gun at narcotics officers.
For so long -- the are politicos that would always dam the police for shootings but would be pretty much mum about there reason we even need police to have guns in the first place. The use of guns and bullets on the streets of New York should be zero and how can NYC make this happen?
I do believe that "anger and rage" is like a shield that turns down the volume on what they don't want to *hear about themselves like blasting boom boxes so loudly...Where are the parents? Two teens passed me spewing all this anger and I wondered why they had nothing else to think about...how about reading, writing, making music, playing a sport but "anger is the rage" this days with kids...it is like an addiction that spirals downward only and destroys lives.
People may blame the economy and lack of opportunities but there are plenty of people that have it hard and just do not do this. There are poor people that have self respect, respect for their community and for life.
I do believe the is a culture of violence -- music, movies and lack of constructive parenting, guidance -- values askew and yes more can be done to help young people realize their is hope and they are options...
*It may be hard to believe about most people of all backgrounds turn up the volume on destructive behaviors rather than tune in to facing uncomfortable issues but many turn the destructiveness inward rather than get guns as a form of machismo to compensate. I believe the wheels of capitalism church on our discontent. The message is you are not good enough, buy this and you will feel better, feel like more...some of the richest people are clearly compensating with the biggest houses and cars....so don't kid yourself that the majority of people don't have this gnawing feelings of inadequacy. It strikes at all levels and many people suffer from "grass is greener" filled with anger and rage that take regular dumps on people as a form of relief...because their jealousy and self hate is just too much and they don't even realize what they are doing. These kids are doing it with guns and they don't seem to have much hope for their lives and clearly no respect for anyone else's; no respect for the community. But I am also repulsed by people and their daily dumps, dishonest dealings, power tripping for similiar reasons -- they too are not happy with their lives and they hate themselves but rather than admit it they dump on innocent victims...
