Neighborhood shootings have decreased! Yea! Or maybe news reports of them have lessened because of all the recent cases of stabbings. As I watch the news each morning, I’m unnerved by the multitude of violent acts one person commits against another on streets not far from my home. I thought the many daily shootings were bad enough; but now I fear the trend of harming each other in an up-close, personal, look-’em-in-the eye way as opposed to pulling a trigger at a distance, often not even caring where the bullet might hit.
We need to end all this. More police might help, although education and lessened poverty would help more. I need to think seriously about what I can do to promote positive change in these two areas. In fact, we all need to do that.