I live about 40 miles north of Detroit and go there very seldom because it just is not safe. It's very sad, just today a man was high jacked and even though he gave away the keys to his car, the high jacker stood over him and pointed the gun at his head, some very brave woman that was watching started screaming at the guy and he wound up just looking at her and then jumped in the stolen car and drove away. The victim was just moments away from death and most feel that if the woman had not screamed the man would have been dead. Drive by shootings, kids being killed when sleeping in their bed or playing on their front porch is a weekly thing. There are many people that live in Detroit that would kill you if they thought you looked at them in a bad way, fights break out over baseball jackets, over ex girlfriends, over the pettiest things. The demographics of Ferguson is much like Detroit, it's sad but many have little respect for life, you have to wonder while getting punched in the head if all those factors did not flash through the officers mind when he decided to protect himself and not take a chance.
Residents of Detroit, the ones that like to commit the crimes, brandish guns like others might carry a pocket knife and think nothing of whipping it out to prove a point, so unfortunately the only way to live in that type of environment is to get your own gun and be prepared to use it. |