artphilfree's Blog

I haven't felt  very safe here the last couple of months.  I have lived here for 23  years and think Philadelphia is not just the stopping point for I-95 travelers.  It has a culture and flavor of it's own.

   The slaughter that is going on both civilian and police has brought it to media attention, but this started  way before this year.  Drugs are a problem. The highways are congested with rude discourteous drivers (where did they come from)  it wasn't like this 20 years ago.  There is no place for our youth to go and do something constructive with their time.

Our schools are not concerned with what is happening to our children.  Our teenagers are being slaughtered, sometimes over something not worth dying for.

Today I read something disturbing.  I read about the accused killer's escape (alarming) and capture (thank God).  However, his family helped him get away and projected a lack of respect for society and the law, they out and out lied to police officers questioning them at first..  We cannot make our own rules-we just can't.  There is no justification for murder.  The sooner  we accept this the better.  Just because your angry doesn't give  ANYONE the right to settle a dispute with a gun, or obtain goods you want by brandishing a gun, or killing innocent people doing their business just because they are in your way.

There is no race card on this. There is no black, white, hispanic........  We are all as Philadelphians in this together.   Our young people have no way of sorting things out morally if we tell them it's OK to murder someone.

Our police have a really tough job to do and we are not helping them at all by casting the blame and race card at them.  Using guns should be a last resort, not a first resort, however, lately I don't think police have had much choice in the matter!