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| Senator Maxine McClean |
“The increase use of guns to settle disputes is really a pattern of what we are seeing among young people. People are using weapons to settle what I would call disputes in the areas of drug dealing.
“You have to ask yourself why is it that particularly young men, because they are ones seen losing their lives, getting injured and charged with crime, why is it that our young men are attracted to engagement in this and I don’t think it is only poverty. It is not simply a case of poverty. In my generation a lot of people did not turn to criminal activities. "
These are the words of Senator Maxine McClean, on a popular call in program.
She appears detached from reality, and very desperately trying to justify her own support of a few fallacies.
Gun crimes can of course be tied to illegal activities of any nature, since, most people shooting others aren't armed forces members, and guns are not permissive in our country's laws.
How hard is it to understand that testosterone, the need to prove oneself as bigger and badder than the next guy, revenge and warped sense of entitlement can be contributing factors to the illegal use of firearms in crimes where persons are shot?
How hard is it to understand that times have changed, and instead of having to wait for the evening news, or the daily newspaper, instances of violence are immediately available to us via technology?
How hard is it to understand that 30-50 years ago, things that were legal and common place, are not necessarily legal today? It's not just a matter of "back in my day, we did bum bum bum bum bum, and that was it." times have changed, the evolution of the internet and social media, has made the world significantly smaller, and equally scarier.
Let me be sardonic and draw a few references on a social level, police officers in Bim are quick to draw, and also equally quick to beat persons who offend them. Mothers in Bim are quick to swing hand and land it in the child father's other woman, those women have been raising our sons for decades now. The stage has been set, and the players are now all performing.
I find serious issue with this whole "in my generation a lot of people did not turn to criminal activities" I would like proof of her generation having "a lot of people" not turning to crime, compared to this generation of people who get caught in criminal activities. I won't say there is any more or less crime, I can't prove it, or disprove it.
Also, of course guns will be used to kill other badmen who interrupt my King of the Hill moment- when you want a man dead, you don't break out a feather and start tickling him half to death and smother him with mauby syrup, that would be pretty much a rather strange sight, innit?
As for Mr. Symmonds... Sigh.
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| MP Kerrie Symmonds |
"...the St James Central MP was however adamant that the country was anxious to see a level of response that would “assuage their collective concerns that Barbados is in fact able to deal effectively with crime."
No. We the public do not NEED our fears mitigated, we need our police force to EFFECTIVELY, PRODUCE ACTUAL RESULTS IN LOWERING THE INSTANCES WHERE CITIZENS ARE BEING INJURED, OR KILLED BY VIOLENT, CARELESS CRIMINALS.
We have had enough placating and promises, we have had enough redirection, misdirection and misinformation for several lifetimes over now, the people need transparency, and efficiency. Stop pandering for votes and allow the police officers, to conduct their investigations, into ALL crimes, without the political games of Boo Boo Catcher and Red Light Green Light from BOTH political teams.
Mr. Symmonds went on to insinuate further, that our government should indeed, be providing ways and means in which the disenfranchised members of society, (now absent of legal methods of which to secure a positive, and secure financial future, for them and their children) could better themselves and their finances using skills training, since the education system failed them.
I don't know if I would readily agree that the education system "failed" them, that would imply that our education system, even was meant to include them in the first place, and since our education system is not yet ready to evolve to accommodate vocationally inclined youth, instead of the current form of targeting and encouraging just the academically inclined. A system not built to encompass a particular target, cannot fail the target as it was never a contender.
