Being a victim tends to change one’s perspective

Let’s be common. A victim lives in an urban area, and while asleep, has their home or auto’s in the drive way burglarized. This is national, not local. Even the Nashville neighborhood Al Gore lives in suffers. Even women and children in Charlotte, NC fear for their lives within their own homes. Even in Atlanta, thugs are obtuse at 4:30 AM when stealing DVD car equipment from a home drive way.

If you have not been an urban victim, fine. Some Americans live in more rural areas, and we shoot back, reportedly. And there are even reportedly local rural recognitions for doing so. As you might imagine, the reported crime rates are lower than urban areas. Perhaps there is a cause and effect, scientifically speaking.

Back to the title theme. Being a victim does change one’s perspective. Most victims just want to live in peace, enjoy security, and be left alone to enjoy the benefits of their hard work, and too often family sacrifice. One or two burglaries and family concerns can be tolerated by today’s standards, even when the local police say that is just how things are in prosperous urban neighborhoods. But after that, one’s perspective changes. And it comes down to the vote. All Americans must live by the same standards, and we will vote it so. And the criminals must go to jail to protect us from them. It seems like more prisons are needed for now. Of course on a percentage basis, things can be looked at one way. And of course, based on the increasing population, things can be looked at another way. Today’s tolerance seems to be racially based in the south, and culturally based in the southwest. This old fashioned out of touch idea about tolerating thugs, criminals, or even criminals in the guise of urban guerrillas, has come to being just dumb. My kids and grandkids deserve having those that threaten them locked up. This is not rocket science. And bummer about paying taxes to build more jails. The population is going up, why not jails?