Glinda |
11-08-2018 02:43 PM |
My family moved to Thousand Oaks in 1969. I attended grade school and middle school in T.O., and went to high school in neighboring Newbury Park (where the killer lived). I buried both of my parents last year in Thousand Oaks. My brother and his family still live a few miles away. T.O. has been home to me and my family for almost 50 years, and even though I haven't lived there in decades, it's still fuckin' home.
I'm crushed by this. I can't stop crying. Although I doubt I knew any of the victims, my niece's son's little league team was coached by Cody Coffman, the first identified civilian victim of this horror.
T.O. is safe, dammit. It has ALWAYS been safe.
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Thousand Oaks is one of the safest cities in America, according to consistent FBI reporting. In October 2013, Thousand Oaks was ranked the fourth safest city with a population over 100,000 in America, according to an annual report by the FBI. It has one of the lowest crime rates in California. The company Niche ranked Thousand Oaks as America's second-safest city in 2016. The city experienced its first homicide in four years in October 2014.
Despite a significant population growth since the 1990s, the city has experienced a general crime decline. In 2015, there were 1.05 violent crimes per 1,000 residents, up from 0.99 in 2014. Overall, the city experienced an one percent crime decrease between 2014 and 2015. Petty theft was the most-reported crime category in 2013, accounting for 40% of all crimes. --Wiki
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God. DAMMIT.
Motherfucking GUNS in the hands of motherfucking ASSHOLE LUNATICS.
I can't believe this is what America has become. I've watched in horror the ever-increasing death toll and pointless destruction that guns inflict on our populace. Now it finally hits home with a lethal sledgehammer.
YOUR hometown, YOUR neighborhood could be next. This can't go on.
THIS CAN'T GO ON.
Small consolation; voters in my state just passed laws that strengthen gun ownership regulations. An absolute step in the right direction. I pray the rest of the nation recognizes that their pathetic, wussy, penis-extension passes for mayhem must be reined in before their families and friends become the next victims.
Washington state voters agree to further regulate guns, including semi-automatic rifles
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