Guns Guns Guns
Four people got shot about 3 blocks from our apartment last night. One killed. Didn't hear the shots, but heard the helicopters afterward. It's a bit disconcerting I have to say. Sure, as I'm not in the market for crack, I very rarely cover that block of Mission, heading up 16th a few streets on my way home instead (to the more, shall we say, gentrified streets); but still, yikes. They don't appear to have much information -- the four victims may or may not be related in some way. And then this other report angles it all TV-sensational, claiming shots were fired a little more randomly. Random crimes are of course the worst, as I prefer to pass this off as a gang incident, some fight over turf or whatever. We shall see.
Serendipitously, SF Gate ran this op ed piece today, which explores our top-down cultural obsession with violence. And I think in a way he's right, that our own celebration creates this feedback loop that reaches out to,well, 16th and Mission. Humans have always been violent, of course, but Americans seem particularly loco. What's our deal? Sometimes you just want to kill the compassionless, myopic, deluded and the stupid.
I mean reprimand, sorry.
Serendipitously, SF Gate ran this op ed piece today, which explores our top-down cultural obsession with violence. And I think in a way he's right, that our own celebration creates this feedback loop that reaches out to,well, 16th and Mission. Humans have always been violent, of course, but Americans seem particularly loco. What's our deal? Sometimes you just want to kill the compassionless, myopic, deluded and the stupid.
I mean reprimand, sorry.
posted by exiled midwesterner at 07:27
6 Comments:
Oh my god. I can't believe that happened right on the street, even if it is the Mission! The Nobberloin was rough too--but you could always count on the action to start at 3am--not 10pm!
Please be careful!
it does suck in that it makes it freaky to walk down the street in some places. but it's funny how random kids in Lafayette can kill their neighbors and no one thinks, you know, this neighborhood really isn't that safe. i guess it's both the violence and the crackheads then...
but it does seem that no matter where we are, we won't escape our irrepressible tendency toward carnage. gotta love the human condition.
Hey it's not just the human condition. The cooked turkey condition is privy to violent carnage as well. (Then again, maybe ol' Turk's just hungry.)
yeah, it's kinda like hunting. if the dudes shot the guy and ate him, at least they wouldn't just be killing for sport.
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Whoa, ya, what if there were cannibal gangs who really did eat their victims? I foresee a blockbuster . . .
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