Clearly they have mended fences. Asheville began addressing its public order concerns after the post-2020 era got really out of control downtown; then the 2024 hurricane washed away much of what was left of the homeless community there, giving them a chance to catch up. The activists who had so much sway over the council during the BLM moment are quite dismayed to see this new level of cooperation, but the city is a nicer place to visit than once -- especially for women and children. Even my rather fearsome wife found the place unsettling during the days of high disorder.
Still, there's surely a balance even in urban areas between defunding the police and trying to encourage Stasi-like programs to spy into the private lives of citizens. Part of the reason Americans have fled to suburban and rural areas is that you can live much more decently without so many other people around, and without the mechanisms of control that 'public order' entails. Even in the city, there has to be a better way.
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The city's plea is vague enough that I can understand your concern, but are the violent crimes they're talking about ones that could have been addressed by the community only by intruding in the private lives of responsible gun owners? Or are we talking about notoriously violent, out-of-control community members who really should have been brought to the attention of police? I'd like to see citizens do something more effective than sit at home hoping the police have a clue and a mission.
The police haven't been especially forthcoming about information that would help citizens identify the precise people they are looking for, so I don't know what they expect from this fishing expedition. The suspect in one of the shootings is in the hospital already, having shot himself non-fatally in the head and then being captured. Otherwise, I know basically where one of the shootings happened but no details that would enable me to help them if I chose to do so. I imagine most of the city's denizens are in the same state.
Being most likely the least educated person in the Hall, it is somewhat difficult to refrain from a vulgarity laced redneck rant. I will do my best.
I am sick unto vomiting about hearing the words "gun violence". The only positive thing using those words does, is to clearly identify people who are passionately committed to idiocy.
As if the tools were the central problem.
Ever notice how many of the people who will turn their nose up in disgust at a firearm, will happily celebrate swords or archery? It is a weird disconnect.
Somewhere, and I regret not marking it, I came across a book on the treatment of knife, sword, and arrow wounds, written contemporary to the widespread use of those implements in war . Horrific. Should be required reading for the anti gun fanatics. Except, as we have seen, it would only result in a new class of tools being banned.
On the central theme- governments LOVE informers. I mean, that is the driver behind all the electronic surveillance. The ideal, for them, seems to be a sort of omniscient nanny state with guns . Mommy knows best. Or Else...
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