Just a Survey .............. Are you Afraid of Terrorists??

[hunter]

47. We've got gangsters shooting at each other in our city, and cops shooting at gangsters.

Our old house had bullet holes in it. One day I was looking over the back fence and saw a cop shoot a guy. The guy was hurrying away, and then for some inexplicable reason he turned around and charged the cop. I'm sure he was on meth or pcp or something similar and he thought he was Superman. (This was before bath salts.) The guy didn't die, but he was shot to death a few years later by an unknown assailant.

I used to play with our kids on the floor of our back room whenever I heard gunshots.

The car I drive has a bullet hole in it. We bought it from a guy who had lived in a similarly bad neighborhood.

We're in a better neighborhood now, but I could still do a walking tour of places where people have been shot. Our frequently graffiti-covered back wall is on a major path to the high school. Painting it over, especially the gang stuff, is a never-ending chore. If it's not painted over it grows explosively, especially if rival gangs start painting over one another's work with increasingly vile threats.

And you know what? I don't even worry about that shit. Why would I worry about some vague "terrorists?"