Things are getting out of hand just about everywhere, but I do worry about my friends in the USA particularly. While I lived in Canada, within spitting distance to the Montana border, I always had a bad feeling crossing the border, watching the people there open carry, bikers with shot gun holsters mounted on their bikes. WTF!?!
For the past decade I live in Vienna, Austria, and most of the trouble we have here originate with immigrants/refugees that bring their violent ways and lifestyles. The other day, a Algerian attacked and killed a guy with a machete at a subway station. Guns are not that usual here, but among those people, knifes are. The cops were successful in catching the guy, since they were right on top of it when someone called it in.
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I don't generally take issue with immigrants (we are all immigrants at some point) but I understand how you can get some bad apples screwing things up. The way I see it, if you have people coming from a war torn area a lot of times they have a lot of mental health baggage that they bring along with them. I don't really know what the solution is. It's really sad because sometimes people just don't know how to act. I was an awful teenager. I wouldn't even recognize my old self today.
I remember when we were living in England, we got a huge influx of Polish people. There was a particular group of young Polish guys who hang out in dark alleys and try to mug people. No one in the town knew how to deal with it, because they hadn't really had this kind of issue before. I remember I was going walking home from the store at night by myself one time and I saw them coming up on me from behind. After they followed me for a while and got really close I turned around and started charging toward them and said "What's up? Y'all want something? Why are you creeping up on me"
They completely backed off and went away. I think it was my American accent. Who knows. Maybe I was a wildcard for them. They think Americans are nuts. haha. I was totally outnumbered though.
haha - "American's are nuts" - well,that's a valid point, present company excluded.
Well, I am not exactly normal. Haha