Gun violence- are you a victim or know somone who was?

The Phillipines is very interesting. They do not value life the way most people in other countries do, and will not hesitate to take it. Brutality is a way of life over there, and I'm wondering if it's the aftermath of the Spanish and Japanese occupying the Phillipines many years ago. A lot of bad things happened over there that created a survival mindset that I'm sure was passed down from generation to generation.

What these teens are doing down in Florida, should be capitalized on and expanded by all victims of gun violence. We've done that in everything else, i.e. "Me Too" and "Black Lives Matter", and this movement is long overdue.
All people really fucking about in this country is money, and more fuckin money. Politicians are bought out all the time by the NRA, and if they don't support the NRA, that organization will find someone who will support them. It's that simple.
Until they get things under control, I will continue to carry concealed.

 

Jesus Christ! My worst fear

 

Wow, you have some interesting cases as well! Your brother is lucky to be alive. Did he continue to steal car stereos after that or did he call it a wrap and straighten up? Some folks aren't that lucky and only get to screw up once and end up paying for it the rest of thier lives. The serial killer; do you know if he climbed the fence or came through an unlocked gate, or was there even a fence at all? I'm disturbed by that story the most, since my wife likes to smoke on the back patio all the time. And because of that, I've made our gate a secured gate with a lock and bells hanging from the handle.
I did that because I feared the very same thing happening to her when I'm not home, because she goes out in the middle of the night, sometimes early wee hours of the morning to smoke a goddamn cigarette. Complacency kills...
What's it like doing LSD and riding a dirt bike?

 

You have no clue who's watching you all the time and why. People that intend to do you harm can come out of nowhere. The member that talked about his wife getting raped by their lawn guy they've known for 3 years, that story was just as scary. That means he has had his sights set on her from day one, and waiting for an opportunity to arise. WTF!? Who saw that coming? I try hard to instill awareness to my wife and daughter and they continue to play on thier phones, totally unaware of what's going on around them......

 

When I was younger I was fearless but I just get more anxious and neurotic as I get older. I've stopped walking around alone at night. I used to go on rambling 3 mile walks every night with no fear but would never do that now. I dont even really like to go sit on the patio by myself late at night but that's a really good idea about putting a lock and bells on the gate. Sometimes our gate is open in the morning. We've had issues with our neighbor's kids coming in the yard and playing with my son's toys so i've always assumed that's why the gate was open but you just never know.

That is really scary about the wife that was raped by the lawn guy. I always, always trust my gut with people but in situations like that, the lawn guy had been coming to their house and building their trust for years.

We actually found out the son of one of my neighbors is a convicted rapist. He lives with his parents. He has schizophrenia and I was the one who always encouraged my boyfriend to be nice to him, he creeped my boyfriend out from their first meeting but I felt sorry for him. Then we found out he was a rapist, he raped the sister of someone we know, actually.

I havent seen him in a while though, he occassionally goes to jail or a mental institution for picking fights with his parents. I hope he stays away this time, it creeps me out so bad living next to him

 

Wow, you're right next door to that creep? Hopefully he does go away for awhile, but as long as they live there, he could potentially come back at some point. That's a good thing that your boyfriend picked up on the creepiness the first time. Why do you ladies not listen to us when we tell you these things? I got the same thing going on over here, LOL!

 

(To post 100)Interesting story, MVW. The guy that runs the place now, Duterte, has bragged about riding around on his motorcycle looking for people to kill. Had to do with drugs as I understand .

 

People like that will meet thier fate one day. It won't have anything to do with karma, someone will just be more than happy to get the best of him.

 

Yeah, he's a dangerous lunatic. They do have a crazy drug (and drug related violence) problem though. Something drastic had to be done, but there's a thing as too drastic and this dude has gone that route.

 

Many interesting stories. I have a CC permit, but I've never carried. I'm not sure how "high up" the background check went on me or anyone else, but it must go well up the line--maybe to the Fibbies. I don't know, but 1st time something alerts me to a possible threat around here, I will consider carrying.Damn shame the country has come to this. As I mentioned in my earlier post------I never even HEARD of someone carrying a hidden gun back in the 40s--50s.

 

That sounds very Japanese---so many cases are weird, to say the least. Some murderers become morbid cult heroes---like the Japanese guy that was living in France and killed his French girlfriend and ate her. Or the Japanese prostitute who killed her lover by strangulation during orgasm, as they had been strangling each other to intensify their orgasms, and she claimed that he had asked her to end it, in part because of the intense mutual jealousy that conumed their relationship---she of his wife, and he of her other lovers or customers, and that he said it was too painful to come back afterwards. She was found wandering the streets of Tokyo in a daze with his severed penis. There was an underground movie about this, 'In the Realm of the Senses,' that you can still buy on DVD.

I have a book in Japanese that your wife is probably familiar with----it was famous/infamous in Japan. Without digging it out of my library, I think the title was, Jisatsu no handobuuku (The Suicide Handbook). It goes all over the various methods of suicide and rates them for effectiveness, pain, and so forth. It describes the last moments of life in each scenario, as well as what can happen if you don't achieve what you intended. I bought it both out of curiosity (as I think many people did) and as a morbid novelty. However, there is no easy way to handle the writing of, or existence of, such a book. The book has very likely been directly responsible for the emotional pain of surviving relatives, perhaps of a victim that without such a book would have never actually commited the act. On the other hand, in a society where suicide is an overarching existential reality justified by far too common of cultural motifs, it has perhaps limited the physical pain of the last moments of life of those who were committed to ending it.

More than once I have been on a train that was stopped for several hours because someone had committed suicide at one of the next stations. Another time I was heading down into a subway, and got half way down the stairs before discovering that the station was closed due to a suicide. I will never forget that a very definite odor of human blood wafted up the stairwell.

Suicide costs train companies a fortune in lost revenues as well as clean up and other costs. A few decades back they started charging this to the victim's families. Therefore people started jumping without any sign of identification on them.

 

You forgot to tell the part where, after your friends and you came down off of the LSD, you discovered that the car turned out to be a large tree, and the shotgun was a large branch that you guys stood in front of, frozen, for the longest time.


(I'm JOKING!!!! (...But we've all been there, right?))

 

"The Suicide Handbook".....I just couldn't bring myself to read such a book, or anything similar to that, even out of shear interest. That's insane. I will check my wife's Japanese book collection to make sure she doesn't Possess one of these. I'm sure she knows of it though. I experienced the same thing with the stopped trains numerous times while I was there. Of all the suicide deaths to pick, why that one, for fuck sake? That has to be the post painful- tons and tons of steel smacking into your body at a high rate of speed, and not stopping for quite sometime, or thier bodies ripped and shredded to pieces if they get underneath it somehow.

 

Wow, that's sad and gruesome. If I were her husband at that trial, I would have leaped forward from the stands to get to that guy and bite his face off! I don't know how families keep it together in a courtroom, and the ones that can't hold it together and have outbursts, I savor every moment of that anger they feel and praise them if they make it all the way over and get thier hands on the killer. I will look up Dock Ellis.

 

Damn good reason to! It's a shame it's come to that and people feel they have to, but you can't argue with people that have had close calls, for having one.

 

Can you say "awesome"?

 

He may never need it again though (chances may increase depending on where he goes in the future)

 

What's it like there? Is there any crime at all? I don't hear anything in the news about Switzerland, ever.