Yesterday's news story has something for both sides in this decade's local and national tribal war.
From what we can gather, the facts seem to be that a coffee shop owner got into an altercation with a homeless person. The conflict ended up the alley behind the shop. At some point the shopkeeper pulled [was carrying] a gun and ended up getting shot with his own gun. He and a bystander received minor injuries.
The political right got on a soapbox about rising crime and the homeless problem; the left got on a soapbox about guns.
They're both right, to a point. Aggressive, sometimes violent, often mentally ill or drug-addicted, homeless people shouldn't be left wandering the streets in perpetuity. And guns are dangerous in the hands of undertrained and overconfident gun owners.
Kranz has and is continuing to ruin Encinitas
ReplyDeleteKranz voted to create a welfare welcoming open city to all. He supports bringing more and more homeless in. Supports more train noise, supports fencing off the coastline, supports increased massive density in our arid desert, and supports taxing you all a lot lot more for paying for these homeless benefit
Agree with EU premise.
ReplyDeleteWhen you dig into motive- cause and effect and drill down to truth, the Dems want anyone who disagrees with them dead. Che Guevara style.
All non dems just want a peaceful life and for dems to leave the kids alone.
In the end we know who will Win and it will be bloody
I'd like to see your reaction if your 10 year old daughter got raped and pregnant and was forced to give birth.
DeleteSpeaking of mental illness and violence, when is EU going to publish the Morris assault and battery charges information?
ReplyDeleteMore complicated than that. You pull a loaded gun in the morning on a known transient, maybe you didn't think it through.There are state laws about the rights of the mentally ill, and until some of those change, you will see people on the streets. Good interim step, get a psych squad/community policing established with the local homeless population so they are the ones who deal with issues like this.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ronald Regan for closing California’s mental hospitals, putting those patients out on the street, promising funding to create a replacement system of state-funded residential treatment, and then not following through.
ReplyDelete8:32, try and think in "the now". Regan died 18 years ago. He was governor "47 YEARS AGO"
DeleteCome out of your coma !!!!
832- no you dumb fricking ignoramus-
ReplyDeleteRonald Reagan had nothing to do with it. he’s been dead for years. This had to deal with Kranz designating Encinitas as welcoming city. sanctuary city, welfare city and inviting throughout the state and all of Southern California to open our doors and our paychecks and our taxes to the homeless.
Kranz needs to take ownership of his shitty decisions that caused that huge increase in homelessness in Encinitas, extremely loud train noise for no reason, fencing off the coastline for no reason, an increase in density big-time in Leucadia while he denied it in other areas like Encinitas Ranch.
Kranz is very damaging to Encinitas.
Anyone that has voted for Kranz and has a Tony Kranz sign in front of their house is an enemy of Encinitas and I do not like them.
Anyone with a Tony Kranz sign in front of their house like John Gjata deserves their future karma.
MATT DID NOT PULL A GUN ON THE HOMELESS MAN. He had it in his waistband under his shirt. There is video, it will all come out.
ReplyDeleteWhy the need to chase someone with a gun in your waistband? Folks think they're living some kind of combination John Wayne/John Wicks revenge life. It's not how normal people deal with situations. I feel more endangered by the coffee shop owner than I do by the homeless guy. Didn't a bystander get injured? That could have been any of us. And the shot would have come from the "victim."
Delete9:09 you need educating like most of you. The business owner has a "legal" right to have a defensive weapon at their business...PERIOD.
DeleteIt's the law and he was following that law. Just like I have the legal right to have a firearm outside of my house on my property. Wake up and wise up.
The loser bum was disturbing the mans business,
his livelihood. Wise up and wake up
I'm not questioning his legal right. I'm questioning his judgment. He apparently engaged in the on-foot equivalent of road rage. While legally carrying a gun. Bad combo in my opinion. I suspect I'm not alone in taking this as a warning not to go to this coffee house. Because the shop owner has poor impulse control. Plenty of other choices.
Delete9:24...you won't go to get a coffee at a place where a guy defends his business?????
DeleteYou...are messed up. Mental health should be your next appointment. What makes people like you tick?
The bizzarro world is your domain.
Not if shrapnel in the leg comes with the “defense.” Speaking of bizarro, you sound a little overexcited yourself there pal.
DeleteSimply pointing out that 9:24 needs help. Excited? Hardly. It's a cup of coffee, not life support.
DeleteThe people around here are a gaggle of nut cases.
Afraid of, what seems, everything.
Maybe a rename of Insanenitias.
Encinitas is by far the weirdest area I have lived. I lived in many places over the years.
ReplyDeletePeople afraid of everything, young men in spandex, children wearing masks, people driving in cars by themselves wearing masks, parents getting covid shots for very young children, no gas-powered leaf blowers, bums invited to stay, on and on. The list goes on at nauseum.
Each time I go grocery shopping it's like watching a freak show. I guess the gods have avoided this area on purpose. Can't say as I blame em'
OK for you to move out of town 8:59.
DeleteBeen here most of my life - and I agree. Fear and whining. Non-stop. Scaredinitas.
DeleteAre Morris4Mayham's guns legally registered?
ReplyDeleteIs that even possible if you have had an assault with a deadly weapon charge?
Did SDGO bother to check before giving him an endorsement?
3:03 He was charged by the DA. He was not convicted.
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