12-24-2008, 04:35 PM
quote:No, No, No... Not Someone, your immediate DEAD family member!
Originally posted by Jon
Would I feel bad if someone died? Yes... but then I feel bad when anyone dies, and it happens a lot.
I'm not interested in a debate over how many, if ever, some un-named face, I'm saying your neighbors heard a gunshot, (and it matters not if one house away or thirty) did absolutely nothing, and believe they did the absolute correct thing by ignoring the gunshot while your relative bled to death on your doorstep because they were not going to react in a knee-jerk manner. Be honest, at what point will that support for inaction turn to rage over inaction? I say it would change immediately when it comes crashing down on a person personally.
We see this in our DUI laws. People yell and scream when little Brianna gets smushed by a drunk driver. We need tough laws, we need zero tolerance, and we need the death penalty. Yet when we have a "few" social drinks of wine at the art gallery opening and drive home, and get pulled over near the house, and fail the sobriety tests... suddenly the law wasn't meant for us, it's for all the others drunks. These laws are not meant for us social drinkers but for the "bar drunks".
The second someone is personally touched by a single bullet smashing through their love one's brains and everyone who heard it did nothing, those same people saying well if it's one house away it's this, if it's 5 houses away it's that, if it's a single shot it's this, if it's multiple shots it's that, if it for a rat it's this, if it's for a fly it's that.... When it happens to them they will be the first person yelling and screaming that those people who heard the noise and did nothing should be charged with criminal negligence.
Now, with a straight face, tell me I’m wrong.