[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Ill just repost this here then.


To me it sounds like one indvidual had some serious issues with another. I think there was another shooting a week or two ago. Very similar, and ill bet dollars to donuts, it was gang related. Two guys shooting at each other after a yelling match if i remember correctly.

Shootings like this are nothing new, and in fact, ill say that when i was growing up, the problems of shooting were WORSE THEN THEY ARE NOW. Or to put it another way, kids growing up now, aren't dealing with HALF the crap i had to put up with. I graduated high school in 1992. In my four years in high school we had a lot of gang problems, which resulted in at least 7 drive by shootings that I know of.

One of which, i was witness too. On that day, I was driving to work after getting out of class and for some stupid reason, I decided to go down the most congested street that day. Suddenly, I heard a "Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop" from somewhere behind me, I looked around i saw people diving to the ground, or into bush's, and then the realization hit me that it was a shooting. I ducked down in my car and got as close to the floor as i could. A min after the shooting stopped, i looked up, and saw a bullet hole in the left rail of the rollup door of a UPS truck that was in front of me. I'd say it missed the left side of my car by two feet. Once the traffic cleared, breathed a sigh of releif , continued my way to work, and never drove down that street again.

As it turns out, it was gang related. Hell, when i went to school I had to worry about being knifed, beaten with baseball bats, fist bats, and being shot at. The best thing to do, was don't get involved with or piss off the wrong people, don't go walking around where you shouldn't be, and mind your own damn business. Kids nowadays don't deal with that on the level that i did, at least not where i grew up, and in my area I went to the good high school. The other was WORSE. You know what ended the violence? The local PD opened an office in my old high school. Resource officers i think they're called. Yup, just like the NRA was saying, armed security, and it worked. I know because ive seen it happen.

EDIT: By the way, the shooting i was witness too, the gang bangers hit their intended target. I don't know who he was, but he was hit several times and air lifted via helecopter to Loma Linda hospital, and never heard of again. I assume he died. This was in 1990 or 1991.

Sounds like an experience my cousin and aunt had back in the early 90's down in Miami.At the time my cousin was playing on the high school soccer team and he wanted some special pair of shoes to play in.The store these shoes where sold from was in a "model" Miami neighborhood.

While my aunt and cousin where walking back to their car some sort of gang or drug related shoot out started so they both laid on the ground behind some parked cars.What they found more shocking than the shoot out was the local
woman who was also taking cover near by she showed no real concern on her face having to take cover from a gang banger shoot out a every day thing to her.

I think your experience is not too uncommon for people who grew up in larger inner cities just based on similar accounts I have heard from folks that live/lived in such locations.A good friend of mine his father lives in a "model" area of Baltimore over the past decade every vehicle he has owned has been hit by a stray bullet.Depending on where you live you are going to see things and deal with things that others do not have to contend with.