Big dog wrote:
With an attitude like that, you really do need to just ‘suck it up’.
As long as the nutcases don’t bother me or mine, I don’t really care what they do. If other people let them get by burning their property, beating them up, stealing their lives’, that is their choice. I get angry over paying taxes to clean up their mess, but I won’t be doing that much longer.
I have worked in Chicago, Detroit, Twin Cities, St. Louis, Cleveland, NYC, Newark. San Diego, Los Angeles. I have had to deal w/ gangs breaking into plants, trying to beat, kidnap employees that wanted no part of their crap. I have gone in ghetto areas to get employees out when police would not respond.
I was raised in a time & place where, stupid, inebriated, or needing a big screen TV were not acceptable alibis in court. There were very few theft cases that made it to court, fewer robberies. Beating an elderly person, challenged person, or woman was not the thing to do if you had plans for a long healthy life. People doing that were not worth the cost of powder & lead so usually ended up maimed. If you got injured or killed trying to block a highway, cause of death would be accidental death due to failure to yield right of way on/in public thoroughfare.
I am no bad ass, mostly skin & bones, never will win a handsome contest, don’t carry a gun. Sometimes I have a small ball pein hammer or Lady Foot pry bar in my belt. I usually have accomplished what I set out to do while the gang members are still laughing at me for being dumb enough to come on their turf. If it gets “iffy”, I know it before they do & act a fool first.
I don’t agree with maiming of killing anyone over politics. Liberal/leftist/communists/gangsters do not live in my mind. They are like weeds, a bother sometimes but nothing to get excited over.