Two days ago my neighbor was relaxing in his front yard with his dog behind a tall fence.

His dog started barking at someone walking on the sidewalk.

One of the two on the sidewalk threw his lit cigarette through the fence panels into the dog's face.

The owner said "that's not really necessary now come on"

In response, the man said "fuck you my guy" and shot at him three times.

Since he wasn't injured, the police showed up about 60 minutes later and there are no leads (and likely no investigation)

Can't even feel comfortable at your own home.

I also live in the city where 2 subway employees were shot (one fatally) over "too much mayo" last week.

Sounds like the police need more funds - and fewer people complaining about "oppression" for chasing down assholes like whoever shot at your friend?

I'm also 4 blocks away from where rayshard brooks was murdered

So maybe they just need to redeploy the drive thru task force.

> My friends and I decided to stop going to large events. How sad is that?

Up to your risk tolerance. I would recommend that if the gun risk from large events is too much for you that you might also want to refrain from driving.

In the same vein, I was discussing police responses to mass shootings on Twitter, and was quite surprised to find Wikipedia took me to a disambiguation page when looking up “[random small town] shooting”: https://twitter.com/samziz/status/1544460684829904896