Thugs with guns

[UGetPaid]

I just discovered this morning that a shooting had taken place in front of my house last week.  I never heard it myself (I was likely in another room sitting in front of a loud air conditioner with earbuds in my ears at the time), but after asking my wife - she recalled hearing fire crackers out in front of the house Tuesday around 11:00.


I came out to go to work today and found a full unspent round on the street curb by my back tire - it was in a silver shell casing.  I called the police and they were on the way.  I sat down on my front steps to wait - that is when I saw an empty brass shell casing on the sidewalk near our flower garden. A minute later, I saw another empty brass casing in the corner between our front steps and garage wall.  There are both less than ten feet from where I lay my head to sleep at night RIGHT NEXT to a window.  Just before the officers arrived, I found an empty silver casing on my car.  (I haven't been driving it recently because I live only a half mile from my office and like to walk in the summer if whether permits).


I go to post this on Facebook, and there I see that two hours ago a judge was shot in my hometown as he came to the courthouse this morning.


What the hell is wrong with people?!?

[monnee]

A lot of crazy killing people in this world we live in.  Like the current car attacks in the U.S. and Spain.

[autumnsparklemom]

Wow! Crazy world we live in.

[bremer51]

That is scary. Why can't people live peacefully and respectfully? I guess its beyond my level of understanding.

[Tresbn00]

I guess it can happen anywhere. We had a hit and run three blocks away from our house. A forty eight year old lady from the neighborhood over decided to drive through our neighborhood while talking on her cellular phone. A ten year old boy could not stop, on his skateboard, and she hit him, flipped him onto her hood and he flew off the car taking her Lexis's rear view mirror off with his head. She never stopped. A neighbor told the police it was a white lexis and was able to provide the first three numbers of her license plate. Two days later they spotted her car, got the full license plate number and visited her house. She didn't answer at first and then denied everything, She said she had an appointment during that time but could not name her client. DNA on the car matched the little boy's.

[annadote]

I think that some people get so desperate (due to poverty, bad circumstances, etc...) that they either don't think it through or they don't care. I'm not sure how we can fix this problem.

[gaylasue]

Do you live in Ohio?  I saw on the news that a judge was killed in Steubenville, OH.  Our company just finished a big project in Stuebenville. 

[UGetPaid]

^ Yup.  Born and raised in Steubenville, but now I live up by the Lake.  The judge was not killed, just wounded. The shooter was killed.

[vickysue]

I thank God every day, that I don't live in  the big city anymore. One of our neighbors , who is black says he is afraid  to even walk down the street when he goes back to see his mother in Chicago. He says if you happen to be on the street with the wrong color of shirt you can get shot. He is  trying so hard to get his family to move out here in the wide open spaces. Bu they wan t to be in a big city.  Yes  even here we have some  crime, but not compared to other places.

[heypeg]

That is really scary.

[ghunter]

Guns are put in the hands of the wrong people.  The world we live in.

[judylucas]

Steubenville is not a big city tho so it's just everywhere

[hitch0403]

Time and unforseen occurrence befalls everyone.

Wrong place,wrong time.

[ktheodos]

crazy, and scary!

[countrygirl12]

I just discovered this morning that a shooting had taken place in front of my house last week.  I never heard it myself (I was likely in another room sitting in front of a loud air conditioner with earbuds in my ears at the time), but after asking my wife - she recalled hearing fire crackers out in front of the house Tuesday around 11:00.


I came out to go to work today and found a full unspent round on the street curb by my back tire - it was in a silver shell casing.  I called the police and they were on the way.  I sat down on my front steps to wait - that is when I saw an empty brass shell casing on the sidewalk near our flower garden. A minute later, I saw another empty brass casing in the corner between our front steps and garage wall.  There are both less than ten feet from where I lay my head to sleep at night RIGHT NEXT to a window.  Just before the officers arrived, I found an empty silver casing on my car.  (I haven't been driving it recently because I live only a half mile from my office and like to walk in the summer if whether permits).


I go to post this on Facebook, and there I see that two hours ago a judge was shot in my hometown as he came to the courthouse this morning.


What the hell is wrong with people?!?

Just because someone shot a gun does not make them a thug.  I have shot a gun and never been arrested in my life.  I am not a thug.  Never been in any trouble other than getting pulled over for speeding.  There wasn't "a shooting" in front of your house.  There is nothing wrong with simply shooting a gun.  Not sure why you would call the police because you find a shell in your drive way and heard a "firecracker" a week earlier.

Btw firecrackers and guns sound a lot different.  Just sayin'