I think back over the past couple years, thinking of the heinous
crimes committed here in my area.
A man on his way to work early in the morning spotted a
duffel bag lying in the road and stopped to check it out. Unknown to him three people had placed it
there and were lying in wait. Upon
getting out of his car, the victim was hit with a hail of gunfire, the perpetrators
fled with his car and the few dollars he had in his pocket. They were apprehended a few days later. The motive was that the leader wanted to kill
someone. They were all local people.
It was nearing shift change at a rural Pennsylvania Turnpike
exit when an armed man accosted two tollbooth personnel. While he had a plan to have them tie up each
other they outsmarted him. The male
employee was able to disarm the assailant and run outside, alerting the guard
of the armored car that had just arrived to pick up the tolls. The gunman, unknown to them, had a second
gun. In short order the turnpike
employee and the armed guard were both dead.
When the Pennsylvania State Police arrived they killed the gunman. The
gunman’s motive was to rob the armored car.
He knew the schedule, he knew the routine, and he was a retired State
Police officer who had been assigned to the Pa turnpike. He was also was employed as range master at shooting range in nearby Harrisburg.
A family living just a couple of miles away was going through
some serious domestic issues. One night
it reached the boiling point. When it
subsided three lives were wasted, the wife and one step daughter lay dead, two
step daughters were traumatized, and the husband was headed for a life behind
bars. I knew him, he was a hardworking
man born and raised right here in Fulton County.
With this in mind, I think of all the post I see of people
wanting our government to build a wall on our southern border. Now I would be the first to agree that we do
need border security and in places a barricade of some sort certainly is
necessary however no wall will protect us from the crimes real and imagined that
our POTUS trots out daily. As Walt Kelly
said over two hundred years ago “we have met the enemy and he is us”.
2 comments:
You hit the nail on the head about the wall. Neither the Great Wall of China or Hadrian's Wall kept out the foreign peoples they were built to guard against. Walled cities virtually always fell to a siege. The Great Wall of Trump won't keep anyone safe from local folks with criminal intent or mental problems and immigrants apparently have lower crime rates than native-born.
We've got to get a handle on immigration, but we also have to remember that most of our ancestors whether Irish, German, Italian or eastern European were unwanted immigrants when they arrived.
Well said. Each country has more than enough 'criminals' living within its borders.I'm all for border security, but keeping everyone out will not solve the problems we already have.
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