The danger from guns, subway, and everywhere
June 1 2022 By Abiodun Giwa
Courtesy: Los Angeles Times
Chaos is what no one wants. But it is what has been foisted on the society. It is as if there is no more government. There is a complaint everywhere that current human situations are getting worse. Compared to the past or the beginning, things were said to be orderly. What has gone wrong? No one seems to offer a solution but political talks.
19 children and two teachers were cut down in a volley of gunfire by a deranged 18 years old. The affected community is in Texas, but the entire United States feels the pain. Many people say the senseless killings may be the worst experience, but it will not be the last. People have got used to hearing the news of humans getting killed and then moved on.
One common-sense talk from Texas' incident is that those children and their teachers could be anyone's children, wives, and mothers. And just as the pain of the loss transmits from state to state in the news on television screens and photos of the loss circulated, another information about the death of the husband of one of the teachers from a heart attack - unable to bear his wife's death, followed.
Amid the torrent of tears also came the news report about a Goldman Sachs staff cut down in cold blood by another deranged fellow in a subway on a Holy day! The fear of traveling in the New York subway has the beginning of wisdom. But there is no way one can totally avoid traveling in the subway. The problem is not a subway. And the problem is not the gun. The problem is an environment that allows so many deranged fellows to patrol streets rather than be in psychiatry hospitals. There is another report of a gunman killing five at Tulsa Hospital, Oklahoma.
Let us first address the gun issue and then move on to the subway that has almost been taken over by homeless people, making it challenging to separate mad people who need psychiatry attention from people who sleep on the trains from homelessness. The gun is a right of all Americans by the second amendment for protection in their homes. President Joseph Biden said the right words when he said he had no power to take the guns away from Americans. But the question people are asking is about what Congress is doing concerning guns getting into the wrong hands?
And until a solution arises to the gun issue, the subway will remain a dangerous place. The first significant problem is its reflection on how easy it is to become homeless due to the rise in rent. The rent goes up all the time, but the people's income does not. And the reason everyone wants to become a homeowner. The unfortunate lots who end up sleeping on the canvas after losing their homes end up on the subway in the night and early mornings. They sleep on subway seats and deprive straphangers of seats. It is difficult to differentiate between the homeless and the mad man who makes sane people keep their distance from them. But do they need to turn the subway to their homes if the government is there to care for the people? Americans complain about much money going abroad from their tax money and little care for them at home. Many people believe that dehumanization would have become a way of life here if not for the structure built by the founding fathers. It is not only the subway that is currently unsafe in New York. People are mugged and killed everywhere. Some observers say free access to marijuana and district attorneys to pursue cases are contributive. They say politicians only care about themselves and care little about the people, and any policy to advance their election is what matters to them.
People love to talk about the good old days about how Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned the subway and that before him as mayor, the subway was as wrong as it is today. Police are sent to quell the fire, but we stereotype all officers when one of them commits a crime. We have already begun blaming the police in Texas without addressing the reported mismanagement of protocols in the school that paved the way for the gunman to enter to premises.
19 children and two teachers were cut down in a volley of gunfire by a deranged 18 years old. The affected community is in Texas, but the entire United States feels the pain. Many people say the senseless killings may be the worst experience, but it will not be the last. People have got used to hearing the news of humans getting killed and then moved on.
One common-sense talk from Texas' incident is that those children and their teachers could be anyone's children, wives, and mothers. And just as the pain of the loss transmits from state to state in the news on television screens and photos of the loss circulated, another information about the death of the husband of one of the teachers from a heart attack - unable to bear his wife's death, followed.
Amid the torrent of tears also came the news report about a Goldman Sachs staff cut down in cold blood by another deranged fellow in a subway on a Holy day! The fear of traveling in the New York subway has the beginning of wisdom. But there is no way one can totally avoid traveling in the subway. The problem is not a subway. And the problem is not the gun. The problem is an environment that allows so many deranged fellows to patrol streets rather than be in psychiatry hospitals. There is another report of a gunman killing five at Tulsa Hospital, Oklahoma.
Let us first address the gun issue and then move on to the subway that has almost been taken over by homeless people, making it challenging to separate mad people who need psychiatry attention from people who sleep on the trains from homelessness. The gun is a right of all Americans by the second amendment for protection in their homes. President Joseph Biden said the right words when he said he had no power to take the guns away from Americans. But the question people are asking is about what Congress is doing concerning guns getting into the wrong hands?
And until a solution arises to the gun issue, the subway will remain a dangerous place. The first significant problem is its reflection on how easy it is to become homeless due to the rise in rent. The rent goes up all the time, but the people's income does not. And the reason everyone wants to become a homeowner. The unfortunate lots who end up sleeping on the canvas after losing their homes end up on the subway in the night and early mornings. They sleep on subway seats and deprive straphangers of seats. It is difficult to differentiate between the homeless and the mad man who makes sane people keep their distance from them. But do they need to turn the subway to their homes if the government is there to care for the people? Americans complain about much money going abroad from their tax money and little care for them at home. Many people believe that dehumanization would have become a way of life here if not for the structure built by the founding fathers. It is not only the subway that is currently unsafe in New York. People are mugged and killed everywhere. Some observers say free access to marijuana and district attorneys to pursue cases are contributive. They say politicians only care about themselves and care little about the people, and any policy to advance their election is what matters to them.
People love to talk about the good old days about how Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned the subway and that before him as mayor, the subway was as wrong as it is today. Police are sent to quell the fire, but we stereotype all officers when one of them commits a crime. We have already begun blaming the police in Texas without addressing the reported mismanagement of protocols in the school that paved the way for the gunman to enter to premises.
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