As I noted in my earlier post - there are a number of lessons to be learned form the Michael Dunn "Loud music" shooting. Of course, the one that most people are going to take home from it is summed up in one section of an article on Huffington Post:
As for what those options were, Valerie told ABC, "Roll your window up. Ignore the taunting. Put your car in reverse. Back up to the front of the store. Move one parking spot over. That's my feeling."
So this is the new world we live in, this is the way we should deal with people who decide it is their place in life to disrupt the social order? Of course we cannot shoot people for loud music..thank God since mine has oft-times been loud. But now we have become a society of wimps, a passive group that will no longer insist that those around us hold up their end of the social contract. So, the people next to you in the car, no matter who they are, decide that they want to be obnoxious? Just ignore them, let them behave as badly as they want.
If you don't mind my saying so - or hell, even if you do - when we just let that happen, just give people their space to be obnixious, this is where we end up. Dark Paradise! So, yes, turn your back, roll up your window, move away, don't say anything. Just hide and let them do as they wish. But remember that one day they may decide to come play in your neighborhood, in your front yard, at your intersection. They may be armed, they may not care who you are.
You may end up dead. But at least you won't be accused of murder.
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