All is not well in our future (we hope) home
You've probably already heard about this.
There have been a few horrible shootings in the past couple of years in Seattle. We moved from New Orleans where shootings were commonplace; the city averaged a murder a day. (The last straw for me was when a restaurant we frequented was robbed and all were shot and left for dead.) Call me silly, but I think there should be more restrictions on guns than there are on the manufacture of toothpaste. (And I don't believe the U.S. 2nd Amendment gives rights to individuals. "A WELL REGULATED militia ...") It's sad to see signs of the gun disease spreading North ...
One area where Seattle is ahead of Vancouver: the citizens here rejected hosting the Olympics. It sounds great as promoted by the Chamber of Commerce; the realities are often not pretty. I do hope that Vancouver fulfills the promises made and makes us proud in facing important social challenges.
There have been a few horrible shootings in the past couple of years in Seattle. We moved from New Orleans where shootings were commonplace; the city averaged a murder a day. (The last straw for me was when a restaurant we frequented was robbed and all were shot and left for dead.) Call me silly, but I think there should be more restrictions on guns than there are on the manufacture of toothpaste. (And I don't believe the U.S. 2nd Amendment gives rights to individuals. "A WELL REGULATED militia ...") It's sad to see signs of the gun disease spreading North ...
One area where Seattle is ahead of Vancouver: the citizens here rejected hosting the Olympics. It sounds great as promoted by the Chamber of Commerce; the realities are often not pretty. I do hope that Vancouver fulfills the promises made and makes us proud in facing important social challenges.
posted by Daniel wbc at 7:54 PM
1 Comments:
It's not really spreading. In fact, it's becasue gun violence is so rare that it makes such big news. Can you imagine that a shooting of 4 people is one of the worst in Vancouver history? What US city of comparable size can say that?
Worry not.
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