Maybe We Should Send Crack Fiends To Iraq
Interesting story here on my local rag‘s website about an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who returned home to Akron only to get shot in a gas station hold up.
My favorite two quotes:
”I looked at him and I chuckled. I said, ‘I’ll be damned if I am gonna give you my s- – -.’ I said, ‘I’ve been in the Marine Corps. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan and came back,’ and I said, ‘You are not going to rob me.’ ”
Richard started the truck to turn the vehicle around so he could get his gas. That’s when the man pulled out a pistol.
”The first thing that came to my mind was, I told him I was a cop.”
That wasn’t true, but he thought it might intimidate the robber. Then Richard decided to get his wallet out to show the man his permit to carry a concealed weapon.
”That’s when he shot me.”
Richard’s fingers went numb and his arm was bleeding.
The gunman was still standing there. He put the gun to the back of Richard’s ear and pulled the trigger.
Click.
The gun didn’t fire.
”That’s when I handed him my wallet and he took off.”
and then…
I got shot for a reason and I don’t know what the reason was.
Well, I have a guess. Maybe it’s because you thought that your being a veteran somehow made you impervious to bullets fired by crack fiends? (I wish it did, that’d be a hell of a sign-on bonus for those who serve our country.) I don’t care how many IEDs you dodge in Kandahar, when someone at a gas station points a gun at you and asks for your wallet, you don’t laugh at him and then proceed to fill up your tank. You give him your wallet.
I’d go ahead and chalk the gun not firing the second time up to karma for serving your country well. The first bullet was because you were an idiot.
August 10, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Regarding the title, that reminds me of when Castro gathered up Havana's criminals and handicapped (physical and mental), and put them on boats to south Florida in the '70s and early '80s. I think Great Britain exiling criminals to Australia back in the day also fits the bill.
If national morality was of no concern, it'd be a brilliant idea. There are plenty of desolate places on earth and we could just load up those C-5 Galaxy military cargo planes we have with our worst degenerates and give them a one-way trip to Nowheresville. Two million prisoners? Not anymore. Illegals? Right now, they find their way back from conventional deportation locales since they already made the trip from Nicaragua to the Rio Grande once, but let's see how they fare when dropped off in Liberia. Can you imagine if we deported illegal Latin American immigrants to war-torn parts of Africa? Genocidal nine year olds wearing tuxedo shoes and carrying AK-47s don't “habla espanol” if you know what I'm saying. Word would spread quickly, as would reluctance to sneak into the US illegally.