Run in with an aggressive transient

[bbbass]

What happended to the Western culture?

 

[titsonritz]

In the good old days they would HANG horse THEIVES.
I consider my car the modern day horse.
But I can't kill car THEIVES

Being without a horse back in those days in many areas could mean death, that is why horse thieves were hung.
Today, not so much, so no your not suppose to do that.

 

[EPS]

Being without a horse back in those days in many areas could mean death, that is why horse thieves were hung.
Today, not so much, so no your not suppose to do that.

So if my car is stolen I have to ride the bus.
Probably sit next to the guy that stole my car the night before.
And he will probably rob me on the bus.
For my lunch money.
Mmmmmm.m F#@$ THESE PEOPLE.
LET THE DIE AND ROT IN THE GUTTER

 

[EPS]

Am I going to go out and shoot them all .
NOPE CAN'T DO THAT.
at least not yet .
Lol .
Maybe one of these days .
Probably after I am dead and gone.

 

[P7M13]

what kind of world is this. Don't answer.

Be sure to scrape the bottom of your shoes before you step back into your house.

 

[EPS]

OK I have to go to sleep now .
Hopefully when I get up my car will still be here
If not I will have to ride the bus.
Lol and it's going to get WESTERN AROUND HERE.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

We need a good old fashioned purge.

I heard those scoop trucks from Soylent Green work pretty well.

 

[po18guy]

What has happened? The minimum acceptable public behavioral standard has been continually lowered for decades now. When I was a kid "Vagrancy" was illegal. You were arrested and you told the judge why you were an aimless wanderer. Was it fair in all cases? Certainly not - but what is fair about thousands of souls floating around, shooting heroin, stealing and dying young?

An increasingly lax attitude toward human behavior under the lie of 'compassion' or 'civil rights' is the cause. Make homelessness illegal. 50-75% of them will be gone rather than face arrest. From the rest, you can weed out the addicted from the mentally ill and deal with them as they should have been dealt with all along.

Then, I wake up and it was all a dream.

 

[solv3nt]

I told my wife it was it was my job to protect her and our children and how I accomplished that wasn't her concern...The guns stayed.

Before I got married, I told my wife that I would be buying a new gun every year.

 

[po18guy]

I have yet to see a "homeless" at the freeway off ramps who is:
1) Older than I am
2) In worse health
3) Has worse shoes than I
4) Out of smokes
5) Whose dog is starving
These people are what used to be known as "idlers."
No problem helping the disabled, mentally ill or temporarily those who need to get back on their feet. But, we are breeding a permanent underclass who votes for more goodies - at our expense.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Getting back to the idea of looking into the "Just what am I seeing activity" or "Just who is that strange guy in my neighbor's yard" etc...
The answer to me is..it depends.

Just what it is , that I am actually seeing , not what I think I am seeing...
Do I have a safe and secure route to and from the location...?
Will I need a light source...?
Is the activity being used as a lure...?
Are there any other "iffy" , strangers , odd cars / places of concealment in route to the area of activity..?
Who else knows that I am checking something out and what I look like / wearing / that I may be armed..?
Am I that committed to getting involved in the middle of a situation that I really know nothing about or even be of my business...?

These questions and many , many more need to be thought of and answered , before doing anything...Of course the answers to any of the above will be different for everyone and in each situation.
One can "What if " or be "Monday morning quaterbacked " to death , for sure , with these ideas and thread topics.

Best advice I can give :
Always have a plan...and make sure that your plan is adaptable to as many changes as possible.
If you choose to intervene in the lives or actions of others , the results may be less than stellar for everyone involved.
Andy

 

[Medic!]

What happended to the Western culture?

What has happened to the American dream?

We got it.

Before I for married, I told my wife that I would be buying a new gun every year.

One?

 

[11Charlie]

One?

I read that as per month so I didn't say anything.

 

[etrain16]

Tacoma?

I did a rotation at the ER in Tacoma in med school for 4 weeks. Even though the dorm room they had set up for me was literally across the street from the hospital entrance, they insisted I have security drive me there so they would not be liable if I was killed.

At least it was better than Harborview in Seattle who made the med students park in a open parking lot 6 blocks away from the hospital that you had to walk at Midnight without security. Nurse got stabbed right outside the front door of the Harborview ER when I was there.

Only way I'd risk working in either of those places now is if I could open carry an AR in low ready position while walking to my car.

I spent about a year doing electrical work at Emanuel in Portland, including a complete remodel of the ER. The entrance couldn't be moved, so patients came in, were greeted at a desk, then escorted through a corridor through our work area to the temp ER. Our work continued for a time in the new ER after the major construction was done, so we spent some time in the active ER.

What amazed me were the number of times folks came into the ER and started fights, with the staff. Punches thrown, weapons pulled, etc. And they put some poor gal alone at those doors to deal with the incoming. It was a real eye opener. Saw lots of interesting wounds come in too. The one that really stood out was a guy wheeled by me in a wheelchair with a hatchet sticking out of his head. He was conscious, not looking like he was in a lot of pain, just happened to have a hatchet in his head.

Done a lot of work in hospitals over the years, seen lots of crazy stuff out there.

Back to the topic at hand.

 

[nwslopoke]

When I was growing up in LA there was skid row and that's where homeless men were with an occasional woman in the mix. There was a big VA hospital (Merdoc from the A-Team lived there) that house a lot if WWll and Korea vets.

This was before the drug wars really hit in the mid to late 80s and Regeanomics shut down a lot of social programs. State mental hospitals shut down and the loonies ran free.

Sprinkle in a little PC culture that allowed people to act up unchallenged for decades and this is the sandwich we've been eating for a while. I'm not judging since it's affected me personally with various family members.

 

[revjen45]

"I had a gun on me at Christmas dinner."

Why wouldn't you? If you carry, you would not disarm for that.
BTW, I carry in my bathrobe.

 

[Tony617]

It was $1,600.00 worth of high quality nail guns...does that change your mind?...kidding.

Ok I thought I saw $400 in one story but no it doesn't change my mind.

 

[solv3nt]

What has happened to the American dream?

We got it.



One?

To be honest, the only year that it was just one was when we moved to Hawaii. Then..... There was last year, 7 ar lowers (two of which were Wilson Combat with Geissele triggers), MK4 Hunter, Savage Hog Hunter, Winchester model 12, Smith 66-1 and 29-6.

 

[DuneHopper]

Your safe mods aren't allowed to have people on ignore!

Yep, this is true or I would be on all the mods ignore list

 

[DuneHopper]

Bring on the hate mail...

But, all of us are responsible for the huge majority of homeless issues that we have. While we may not be 100% responsible, we continue to add problems to our society with no form of resolution. We have many homeless who are veterans who have all forms of mental health issues that are not addressed, these individuals lose their jobs, give up on all hope of being helped by the federal government and often turn to the streets where they are forgotten and ignored. In a survey done in 2007, it found a huge percentage nearly 80% of people that are homeless had a mental health issue or concern. So great where these concerns that they are often ignored by those who would provide them employment, or even give them a hand. After a while we create a revolving door of an nonacceptance, which leads to homelessness. Yes there are many people that have created these situations themselves, their behavior or addictions have driven them into the streets where they can embrace that behavior. But this tends to be the exception more then the rule. About 1 out of 10 homeless are also children, that was ignored as well.

Back to the OP, these issues are occurring, because for 40 years we have covered up, and removed mental health, covering up the problem. But now decades of ignoring the problem are now seeing it seep into our communities as they are shuffled from street to street and town to town.