If he likes humor, I would suggest The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It's the parody that Scary Movie wishes it could be.

just click on the attackerman blog and click the button at the top of the page. that worked for me.

Get well soon Brian.

I saw The Lost Skeleton...
The part when the skeleton says "That'd be me" is too funny on many levels.

Does he like schlocky horror movies, or does he want to have his brain exploded by Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, etc.)?

Crime is the background noise to life in DC. Less an act of God than a certainty of time, it's thought of much like illness...

I find your apparent tolerance for crime appalling. In my neighborhood, there is little tolerance for crime and any that occurs is dealt with harshly.

Part of the crime problem is this attitude.

Viajero, I don't know whether you live in DC or not, but for most people "tolerance" is not the right word for the feeling of cynicism and helplessness that accompanies news about crime. I'd be curious to hear what your neighborhood does to express its lack of tolerance and to address the issue when it arises.

In the cases where crime is localized around a street or a gang, residents seem to have taken steps to address the problem. Witness the work of the Guardian Angels in Shaw.

But in cases like Brian's, it seems much more perverse, because a criminal act--violent crime, especially--happens where you wouldn't expect it. The frequency and apparent randomness of the locations and times makes it hard to organize the neighborhood against some kind of visible threat. Meanwhile, would you have us wait outside the ice cream store with baseball bats, waiting for the next time someone tries to hold it up?

Washington's got some pretty serious structural and political barriers to dealing with crime more effectively. It's getting better, as Ezra noted in the post. But to say that DC's crime problems are reducible to, what, neighborhood apathy misses the point. The apathy has set in because the problem is much bigger than the neighborhood: it's citywide, it's very much tied up with persistent economic and racial inequalities, and it's been this way for a long, long time.

But yours smacks of the kind of thinking that led to the lockdown-like response to the crime wave in Trinidad, which is precisely the kind of response that speeds the disintegration of the very neighborhoods that can help mitigate, in part, some of the damage caused by crime in the first place.

I'd be curious to hear what your neighborhood does to express its lack of tolerance and to address the issue when it arises.

Until 30's and 40's, individuals largely took responsibility for their own security. The FBI didn't even carry guns and only the largest of cities had police departments.
In my 'neck of the woods', we carry weapons and protect each other's life and property. We promulgate laws that are friendly to citizen enforcement. Police can't be everywhere and you will always be disappointed if you rely on them. Just not enough to be everywhere. You may have heard about the man in Houston who prevented a robbery by two illegal aliens. He called the police, but they couldn't get there fast enough to prevent the crime. He did. The robbers died, but the citizen was exonerated by the courts.

So, what we have here is a healthy respect for the law, and the legal means to enforce it for the safety of all law-=abiding citizens. Much of the complaints from liberals is they just don't want citizens to enforce laws. They want police to do it.

So, how'd that work out for Brian? If DC had a carry law, this might not have happened. The beauty of these laws is that you don't know who is or who isn't carrying, so.....does the perp feel lucky? Well, does he, PUNK?

What Fred forgets to mention is that crime is largely associated with demographics, and for all the Dirty Harry fantasies that animate rural Texans, when the cities turned violent in the 60s and 70s, whites left, they didn't take to the streets and clean them up themselves. Self-policing tends to work well when there isn't crime, and it's largely a matter of personal affirmation. But if DC had a carry law, neither Matt nor Brian would;ve been carrying, and it wouldn't have mattered even if they had been. They were shot before they realized they were being mugged, not after they had time to draw a handgun and take aim.

But in cases like Brian's, it seems much more perverse, because a criminal act--violent crime, especially--happens where you wouldn't expect it

I can't say that a crime occurring at 17th and Euclid is "unexpected."

But if DC had a carry law, neither Matt nor Brian would;ve been carrying, and it wouldn't have mattered even if they had been. They were shot before they realized they were being mugged, not after they had time to draw a handgun and take aim.

Ezra doesn't know any of that. The beauty of carry laws is no one knows who's carrying. His wild west fantasy is not the way this deterrent works at all. Less mugging period because they don't know who will resist.

As it is in D.C., nobody resists. First, if you guage by Ezra's attitude no one has the will and secondly they don't have the means even if the will is there. Ezra presents a terrible misunderstanding of guns and their dynamics. Stick to the typewriter.

Ezra's attitude that "Well, it just happens and there's nothing you can do about it" is appalling.

Crime is not a priority with him. If it were, he would be angry. He SHOULD be angry that his friend was attacked with deadly force and is lucky to be alive. Carry, awareness, harsh sentences for gun crime and the death penalty will all help, but it takes involvement.....something Ezra loathes. He would rather snipe on the sidelines from his keyboard.

ElV, your dirty harry fantasies are really, really pathetic.

Crime is low in most of the cities I've lived in, none of which used the death penalty much (or at all) or had any laws which made it common to carry concealed.

They did, however (and here was the difference between safe an unsafe cities I've lived in) have effective law enforcement and initiatives to aggressively crack down on troublemakers. Some of this was even combined with strict enforcement of gun control laws to prosecute illegal firearms possession and dealing to the full extent of the law.

Buetler was victimized where he was for two reasons: first, because the corner in which he was shot is a place where criminals gather and deal drugs and hang around looking for trouble. second, because law enforcement in DC is ineffective and still suffering from the Marion Barry years. It is, I suppose, tempting to fantasize putting together a small organized crime ring of people willing to take revenge on those who would assault and rob members of the "family", but most of us recognize it's just a fantasy, and that starting a gang war -- even if it is your gang -- is not exactly a means to reduce violence.

so he was shot while trying to score

Yeah, I guess you and Ezra are right and the police are simply stupid

Tell 'em that it's useless to carry guns and to give up. Crime can't be dealt with.

The solution? Walk around with a cleverly concealed yet instantly available weapon, preferably under an undetectable remote control.

The mere possibility of such an item should deter that crackhead with a gift for cost-benefit analysis from mugging you.

The mere possibility of such an item should deter that crackhead with a gift for cost-benefit analysis from mugging you.

Over time, yes. After several citizens take action and it gets known that the risk/reward ratio goes up for our gifted crack-head..

As it is, he knows no one that looks like a regular person can defend himself. The ratio is currently low.

and yet you weren't touched. Why is that?

A little mugging is a good thing for an obnoxious liberal. It might just save your soul.

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