Thread: I just got back from a 12,000km roadtrip across Canada and half of America

Originally Posted by coqauvin

Fun new story - When we were leaving Chicago around 9pm, I was running low on gas, so I pulled off the 94 freeway onto 111th street, which I'm assuming is some kind of ghetto. the shut down gas station on the side of the highway wasn't enough of a red flag, apparently, so I went a little further down the road into the scariest gas station I've been to. Anyone familiar enough with Chicago to tell me where the fuck I was?

I read stories about these things in the US. Ganglands. Bulletproof glass protected Burger King counters. Service stations where the attendant will pretty much just tell you to gtfo before you're mugged. I can't even imagine going through a place where I felt in danger. I hope they're very isolated areas.


Edit: I missed DaiTengu's link. WHAT THE FUCK over a thousand victims to shootings and it's only July. Why has gun legislation not been changed decades ago?

Originally Posted by aspirin

I read stories about these things in the US. Ganglands. Bulletproof glass protected Burger King counters. Service stations where the attendant will pretty much just tell you to gtfo before you're mugged. I can't even imagine going through a place where I felt in danger. I hope they're very isolated areas.


Edit: I missed DaiTengu's link. WHAT THE FUCK over a thousand victims to shootings and it's only July. Why has gun legislation not been changed decades ago?

Because criminals don't give a fuck about gun legislation. Let's take England for example. I know most personal firearms are illegal there, and the criminals are the only people with guns there. They could ban all guns in the US, that'd just take 'em out of law-abiding citizen's hands and leave them with the criminals. Because criminals don't give a fuck about laws(I'm a criminal, granted, just a drug criminal so those are the laws I don't care about... but I have sold guns before, to make extra money).

I think most of the shootings in Chicago were done by gang members and shit, banning guns in any way would not affect them at all.