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re: Atlanta Area Fire Chief shot and killed in Alabama..
Posted on 1/21/25 at 2:13 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Posted on 1/21/25 at 2:13 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
quote:
Never trust a man with 3 names.
But almost every man has three names?
Actually, trust no one is probably good advice.
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Posted on 1/21/25 at 2:21 pm to elposter
quote:quote:
Never trust a man with 3 names.
But almost every man has three names?
Actually, trust no one is probably good advice.
The reason the media uses all 3 names is because they are gonna be in a lot of trouble when their mom finds out.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 3:25 pm to shutterspeed
quote:
There are definitely losers out there who fantasize about "taking care of business" on a daily basis.
Some of them post on the political board.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:28 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
This story reminded me of a neighbor I had 20+ years ago (damn that hurts to write) when I was a kid. She was a Yankee transplant, a little impolite for this southern neighborhood and a bit too nosy, but nice enough to me. By mistake I ran the lawnmower over some flowers or small bushes that never bloomed that she had planted just on her side of the property line. She called the folks to complain, and we bought some replacements and planted them a little further onto her property. Reading this story made me think that if she had been like that a-hole, she could’ve shot me dead right there on the Wheelhorse.
Senseless deaths always suck, but especially so when the victim was trying to help others, like the fire chief here. May he rest in peace and the murderer receive swift and deserved justice.
Senseless deaths always suck, but especially so when the victim was trying to help others, like the fire chief here. May he rest in peace and the murderer receive swift and deserved justice.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 4:43 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
quote:
Never trust a man with 3 names.
Media always uses the full name in cases like this in case there's 100 other William Franklin's out there, or they can get sued for libel. It's standard operating procedure.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:06 pm to CoonassatTEXAS
It’s really sad what some men consider being “tough” nowadays.
To think he could have called a tow truck, put on a pot of coffee and maybe let the guy sit in his kitchen until the tow truck arrived. It’s just mind blowing the stupidity of the situation.
Imagine how cowardly you have to be to open fire on that fire chief for walking up your driveway, in broad daylight no less.
To think he could have called a tow truck, put on a pot of coffee and maybe let the guy sit in his kitchen until the tow truck arrived. It’s just mind blowing the stupidity of the situation.
Imagine how cowardly you have to be to open fire on that fire chief for walking up your driveway, in broad daylight no less.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:14 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
We live in a different world than many of us grew up in. I'm past the days of walking to someone's door for anything. I get nervous returning my pool key to the HOA president's porch every year. If I were in the chief's situation, I'd have kept driving until I had signal. Obviously the person with the wrecked car couldn't do that, but the chief had an operational vehicle. It would have to be life or death for me to just walk up to a stranger's house to knock on their door.
Even approaching people on a sidewalk. On a trip to NOLA not too long ago I approached some strangers to ask for directions on my first day, hell, first hour there. They treated me like a psycho.
Nobody trusts anybody anymore.
Even approaching people on a sidewalk. On a trip to NOLA not too long ago I approached some strangers to ask for directions on my first day, hell, first hour there. They treated me like a psycho.
Nobody trusts anybody anymore.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:28 pm to AwgustaDawg
quote:
When you have a sizeable segment of society scared to go to Dairy Queen without being armed because they suffer from irrational fears this sort of thing is going to happen. People are convinced crime is rampant when just the opposite is true because people like to be afraid of their own shadows.
What the frick are you talking about? Of course crime is out of control. There is 20+ million new illegals in this country that weren’t here a few years ago.
350,000+ children are missing over the last 4 years.
Do you not see what’s going on all over California and every other democrat run city in this country?
Would you walk the streets in Baton Rouge at night without a gun on you and feel safe? You’re a naive fool if you do.
Did you not see what happened on Oct 7, 2023?
There are houses all over Acadiana that live in rural spots like me with plenty of illegal trespassers, almost always armed.
I am armed. Ive been armed for years. There’s a gun in my vehicle. There’s a stop box with a 9mm in on our kitchen countertop. There’s another on my bedside table. Zero firearms are ever out and we preach gun safety in this household.
There is a difference between being armed and shooting innocent people like a dumbass.
If I saw a firefighter walking down my driveway my first thought is certainly not “let’s pump this guy full of lead, he’s on my property!”
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:32 pm to deeprig9
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We live in a different world than many of us grew up in
I live in NYC but spend a lot of time in the country where my mom lives and have to say that about the only time I think twice about a potential violent encounter is this kind of scenario.
FedEx mistakenly leaves a box for a house near hers but I don't know the people and decide against dropping it off myself in case some nutcase just starts shooting protecting his property when I drive into driveway.
That would have never occurred to me when I was growing up and really the crime there is no different than it's ever been. More idiots just seem to believe they're under attack.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:33 pm to AwgustaDawg
quote:
When you have a sizeable segment of society scared to go to Dairy Queen without being armed because they suffer from irrational fears this sort of thing is going to happen.
In regards to the OP the guy who hit the dear was carrying a gun also possibly due to being scared to go to Dairy Queen, and it saved his life.
This post was edited on 1/21/25 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:35 pm to wm72
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More idiots just seem to believe they're under attack.
I think we can pin it down to mentally ill people now have internet, and nothing else to do all day except internet.
Back in my day, mentally ill people and idiots played with toys all day and watched cartoons.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 5:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
A Canadian gonna Canadian
Posted on 1/21/25 at 6:03 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Look Boo Boo
Posted on 1/21/25 at 6:05 pm to deeprig9
quote:
We live in a different world than many of us grew up in. I'm past the days of walking to someone's door for anything. I get nervous returning my pool key to the HOA president's porch every year. If I were in the chief's situation, I'd have kept driving until I had signal. Obviously the person with the wrecked car couldn't do that, but the chief had an operational vehicle. It would have to be life or death for me to just walk up to a stranger's house to knock on their door.
Even approaching people on a sidewalk. On a trip to NOLA not too long ago I approached some strangers to ask for directions on my first day, hell, first hour there. They treated me like a psycho.
Nobody trusts anybody anymore.
This is why I got a conceal carry permit.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 6:46 pm to shutterspeed
quote:
There are definitely losers out there who fantasize about "taking care of business" on a daily basis.
We "moved to town" in 2023 and people knock on our door all the time now. I don't even answer it because of all the crazy nut balls around, but I damn sure ain't gonna start shooting.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 7:35 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
quote:
This is why I got a conceal carry permit.
thanks to Brian Kemp we don't need those anymore.
Posted on 1/21/25 at 7:56 pm to deeprig9
I know. I got one anyway.
Brian P.Kemp is the best governor of my lifetime, and I'm including Zell(RIP).
Brian P.Kemp is the best governor of my lifetime, and I'm including Zell(RIP).
Posted on 1/21/25 at 10:36 pm to dnm3305
quote:
Of course crime is out of control.
Not compared to what it used to be.
According to the FBI crime statistics violent crime (the kind you need a gun to defend yourself from) fell 49% between 1993 (where it had been peaked since the 1970s) and 2022.
Specifically, it fell 74% for robbery, 39% for aggravated assault, and 34% for murder/manslaughter over that period.
If you want to carry a firearm, fine, I have no problem with that. But the reason we have people shooting other people just for walking up their driveway is NOT because they are more likely to meet with violence from that person than they would have been 20 or 30 years ago.
It's because we have 30 streaming channels of 24 hour news and the internet and social media giving everyone the perception that they are in so much more danger than they used to be. We didn't have that in the early 90s and before.
It was a lot more dangerous for me—born in 1970—growing up than it was for my kids. My parents just didn't know it because every calamity befalling children/teenagers in the whole country wasn't piped into their brains 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
This post was edited on 1/21/25 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 1/21/25 at 11:13 pm to wackatimesthree
Biden (or someone) changed the way FBI does its crime statistics including for typical racial politics. I can’t remember the last year using the old way, but it makes true and accurate comparisons after that year to ones before more difficult.
I can’t remember the delay in posting, but the last full year using the old standard I saw was 2018. 2019 might have been done, but covid and summer of love may have delayed it until after Biden sworn in. Summer of love numbers would have to be fake if a huge bump didn’t happen.
New way I think also is much more limited in what cities the data is coming from and what’s required to be reported, which is why some areas showed a drop in crime when in reality some cities showed zero. Old way had some under reporting issues as well but not nearly as bad.
It’s much easier to mask certain aspects of crime with the updated way. Comparing years within old format only and then within new format would be a better comparisons.
Also, my parents knew about any crime going on because news, news magazines, and newspapers were important and a constant in our house. They were also better at face to face communications with neighbors, parents from different schools, police, and even the DA. Usually knew everyone to some extent blocks and streets away and in between. We usually kept house and unattached garage unlocked. I think I heard of one house being broken into growing up which triggered my mom calling me to say we might want to lock our doors. It’s wasn’t even an absolutely lock them. Cars left out of garage weren’t broken into. After I finished high school My parents moved a couple of times and waited to buy a house until staying longer, and basically left our older house in a different state with most of the stuff in it including electronics for over 2 years without a single issue or worry.
Using data and social media available as an excuse on why crime seems inflated has been used since beginning of the 21st century including a big jump for a few years when Facebook opened up to everyone maybe 17 or 18 years ago. It’s ridiculous to keep using this excuse over anything comparison since maybe 2010 on top of it not always being accurate with people before who communicated better and knew each other better the old fashion way than many do today.
I can’t remember the delay in posting, but the last full year using the old standard I saw was 2018. 2019 might have been done, but covid and summer of love may have delayed it until after Biden sworn in. Summer of love numbers would have to be fake if a huge bump didn’t happen.
New way I think also is much more limited in what cities the data is coming from and what’s required to be reported, which is why some areas showed a drop in crime when in reality some cities showed zero. Old way had some under reporting issues as well but not nearly as bad.
It’s much easier to mask certain aspects of crime with the updated way. Comparing years within old format only and then within new format would be a better comparisons.
quote:That’s BS. It was less dangerous for me than for our kids. Crime has spread out and comparing to the 70s is similar to climate extremists cherry picking the years they want to compare to current. Organized crime was still big along with regular crime, but they were also more isolated to certain areas than today. Most of America only read about it or saw it in the news but didn’t have to live close to it like now. You got warned about crime going to a big or at least bigger cities and nowhere else, because that’s where the crime was. Even then with the bigger cities it was less about being murdered or assaulted and more about getting robbed. Much easier to avoid problem areas as well. Our city also wasn’t rural. It had a university, another smaller college, multiple large hospitals, most stores, and an industrial plant or two nearby along with a large medical community.
It was a lot more dangerous for me—born in 1970—growing up than it was for my kids
Also, my parents knew about any crime going on because news, news magazines, and newspapers were important and a constant in our house. They were also better at face to face communications with neighbors, parents from different schools, police, and even the DA. Usually knew everyone to some extent blocks and streets away and in between. We usually kept house and unattached garage unlocked. I think I heard of one house being broken into growing up which triggered my mom calling me to say we might want to lock our doors. It’s wasn’t even an absolutely lock them. Cars left out of garage weren’t broken into. After I finished high school My parents moved a couple of times and waited to buy a house until staying longer, and basically left our older house in a different state with most of the stuff in it including electronics for over 2 years without a single issue or worry.
Using data and social media available as an excuse on why crime seems inflated has been used since beginning of the 21st century including a big jump for a few years when Facebook opened up to everyone maybe 17 or 18 years ago. It’s ridiculous to keep using this excuse over anything comparison since maybe 2010 on top of it not always being accurate with people before who communicated better and knew each other better the old fashion way than many do today.
This post was edited on 1/22/25 at 10:18 am
Posted on 1/22/25 at 12:37 am to wackatimesthree
Parents used to leave their kids unsupervised without any cell phone, when crime was much more dangerous and less surveillance around.
as a 90s kid i remember parents just letting their kid leave the house, with the promise of returning by sundown.
Now, parents are being arrested for letting their kid walk down the street
as a 90s kid i remember parents just letting their kid leave the house, with the promise of returning by sundown.
Now, parents are being arrested for letting their kid walk down the street
This post was edited on 1/22/25 at 12:41 am
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