St. Louis City leaders tells citizens to arm themselves
By lilwonders
@lilwonders456 (8214)
United States
December 3, 2008 8:44am CST
The city leader is fustrated with the response time and support the community is getting from the police department. The crime rate in his area is spiking. He said the ecomony is just going to get worse and crime with it so the people of his ward need to arm themselves to be able to protect themselves and their property. He talked to the police about the matter but were told they did not have the man power to deal with the risiing crime rate.
What do you think about that? Should political figures be telling people to arm themselves? Will crime rise as our ecomony gets worse?
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@Troublegum (641)
• United States
3 Dec 08
While there may be some degree of truth to it, this particular guy has some other political irons in the fire and it serves him well politically to badmouthe the PD and current administrators because he is vying for politiacl posts. So you have to take those comments with a grain of salt.
But yes, St. Louis has always been right up there in terms of crime rate. Not a month ago an officer was sitting in his cruiser and someone walked up and shot him. Makes you worry a little.
I've got big dogs watching my house, but there has been a rash of gunpoint robberies that are causing a ruckus as well.
@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I think the state of the ecomony is causing crime to get worse. The police can only do so much. This guy may have an agenda but with the current climate the way it is, it is not a bad idea.
@Troublegum (641)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I always love the stories about store clerks who beat up robbers. I think if a little more of this went on people would think twice.
My brother once knocked out a guy who tried to mug him, and I haven't heard the end of the story, but I guess the mugger doesn't brag too much about that to his friends.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
3 Dec 08
When seconds count the police are always minutes away. It is not the job of the state to protect anyone just to catch and prosecute criminals. Police just cannot be in every place at every moment, so it is the job of private citizens to do the job of protecting themselves. So we finally have so form of government finally realizing the limits of government power.
Crime will rise as the economy goes down the tube, because for some everyone's property is the right of their if they want it. Normally this attitude does not come up in good times, but when money is harder to find then some will start stealing what they want.
@Troublegum (641)
• United States
3 Dec 08
This is an argument that people have been making in international politics for quite some time and there is a lot of truth to it. There is quite simply less crime in countris that have a higher GDP.
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
3 Dec 08
I think he's right. It will, I believe it is already happening in pockets. I also believe that things will get to a devisive point in this country that goes beynd mere crime sprees. We saw the edge of that begin to cut in the lead up to the elections.
On the polar oposite end of things, we have the fedral government now trying to pull that option away from the average citizen, H.R. 6257 being a classic example. This bill reinstates the "assault weapons" ban. The term assault weapon however deceptive, because what it refers to is any semi-automatic weapon. The term "assault weapon" is used as a buzz word to make them sound more threatening and shore up public support for the ban, as it was when it was first enacted.
@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I know, they use the word assault weapon to make it sound scarey and therefore needing to be banned.
I know what you mean. I am starting to notice it here too. I live in a quiet neighborhood in a tourist town. Needless to say the ecomony has taken a big hit here. I have noticed that lately (past couple of months) people have started coming into the neighborhood and going to door to door asking for odd jobs and money. When you tell them no (because I do not have extra money to pay them with ) they leave. They started out nice and polite. Now the ones coming around are more desparate and more demanding. I have stopped letting the kids play in the cul de sac during the day when everyone else is at work. We play in the back yard and I always make sure the doors are locked (added a few extra ones) and the alarm is on even when we are home. I even had one come to the door a couple of weeks ago and try to talk my five year old into opening the door for him. Thank goodness he knows better than that and that we have locks placed high enough that he can not reach them. Needless to say the police got a call about that one (and I have spent alittle extra time at the shooting range).
