Shooting In Boerum Hill
A reader emailed us last night after arriving home at around 8 o’clock to find that her block of Warren Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues had been shut down following a shooting. There were a couple of dozen cops on hand, and they said that someone from the nearby Gowanus Houses had been shot;…
A reader emailed us last night after arriving home at around 8 o’clock to find that her block of Warren Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues had been shut down following a shooting. There were a couple of dozen cops on hand, and they said that someone from the nearby Gowanus Houses had been shot; she inferred from there comments that it was a teenager. She also inferred that the shooter was still on the loose. Anyone else nearby pick up any other details?
NSR – very true
I do think that some people who play violent video games do get sucked into a “fantasy world” where they are involved in strategic shootings and murder scenes whether it’s God Of War, Halo, or Grand Theft Auto. I think there are some people who have emotional/mental deficiencies already whether chemical or environmental that are then triggered by playing these games and then go out do harm and not really understand they caused this destruction of life.
Disclaimer – I work in marketing for music and this is my dimestore analysis. haha
This is not Gowanus — the canal doesn’t even begin until Douglass.
I’d agree that this is Boerum Hill — but I have seen one or two real estate agents calling these townhouse blocks east of 3rd avenue Park Slope.
“and the values prized in their neighborhoods.”
Thats a bit of a sweeping statement.
gemini — I was agreeing with you up to “video games plain and simple.”
The fault lies primarily with their families and the values prized in their neighborhoods.
I don’t know if its so much as being taught the value of life as seeing the value of life.
The problem really is that many young people today are not taught the value of life and how quickly that life can be taken by reckless behavior either with guns or knifings or a bottle to the head in a fight
Kids are WAY to desensitized to violence and it’s because of video games plain and simple.
I’ve been willed two rifles, owning a gun is not inherently going to make you a psycho who wants to resolve everything with a gunshot. There are tons of guns in rural America and gun crime there is nil.
It is the culture of “I’m so hard, look how fucked up I am busting caps all over this hood. Damn I’m a troublesome motherfucker.” No one wants to speak out about that because they all want their hood to be “down”.
Putnam – what exactly are so so disgusted about (besides the shooting of course)?
And Etson, I agree that culture plays a big part. But when low-priced, illegal handguns are readily available, change is a lot tougher.