Gang Banger Sign Language Interpreter?

[Braz]

I think Chris Rock's take on stereotyping is funny,

"Guys, women who wear provocative clothing are not whores. But they are wearing a whore's uniform."

 

[Wilhelm]

You guys are cracking me up. I have numerous tattoos and quite a few peircings. I some times dress like a thug and other times I do not. I run a successful business and have a very intelligent beautiful wife. I love my life a great deal and really care less what other people (unless they are a customer) think of me. You guys worry way to much what other people are doing. As long as they are not hurting you or anyone else who cares what they look like?



Wilhelm

 

[OF]

Everyone I see gets assessed to some degree. I make my assessments of people based on the information I have at that specific moment in time. If all the information they are giving me is that they either idolize gang bangers or are gang bangers, then until they provide me with more data, like whipping out their Rhodes Scholar award or helping an old lady across the street, they will get assessed appropriately based on currently available information: visual information. How I choose to handle that person will be based on that currently available information.

Lets be clear. I'm not so naive as to believe that everyone who dresses like a gang banger is a gang banger, obviously. Does that mean that I am going to assume that someone who dresses like a thug is actually a boy scout just to assuage some PC sensitivities? Hardly.

Someone once said: "Be polite and respectful, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet." I don't walk around in condition white, and without a mechanism for evaluating and assessing people in an instant, subconsciously, I don't see how you can claim condition yellow.

I would not know how to live any other way.

- Gabe

 

[TheOtherOne]

I guess I'm probably jumping to conclusions and stereotyping by saying this... but, alot of people on this board jump to conclusions and stereotype. It's not possible because of the way these 4 guys talked and dressed that they were just some friends hanging out at the range trying out a new gun one of them had saved up to buy? I know I wasn't an expert the first time I shot a handgun. Growing up mainly only shooting rifles, I kind of learned on my own the basics of proper grip etc with handguns. It would of been nice if someone just came over and helped me, regardless of whether not they were just trying to scope out the serial number.



The word hypocrite comes to mind. I think everyone needs to remember things like this when some blissninny calls you a gun nut and thinks you must be planning a full-auto bank robbery just because you happen to like guns.

 

[DontShootMe]

Tell you what...

At the range last weekend, a group of 'teenagers' came in and rented some guns to shoot - they obviously had no gun handling experience and I did not stick around more than 5 mins after they arrived because I refused to be part of any possible 'accicent'.

my $.02

 

[spacemanspiff]

how rude! you dare come in here with your ageist remarks?? was it necessary to say that that group was 'teenagers'? thus fueling the assumption that teenagers are irresponsible and unable to handle guns properly!

 

[rock jock]

Folks,

There is a world of difference between being racist and being careful. Ignoring typical signs of minority gang involvement is no more prudent for a white guy than ignoring typical signs of a white supremecist (e.g., young white kid with shaved head, Confederate flag shirt driving a pickup truck) would be for a black guy. Just because you recognize these signs and are given to more caution does not mean you are a racist.

 

[OF]

Exactly.

- Gabe

 

[zahc]

"how rude! you dare come in here with your ageist remarks?? was it necessary to say that that group was 'teenagers'? thus fueling the assumption that teenagers are irresponsible and unable to handle guns properly! "

hehe!

I'm a teenager


this is a good thread.

 

[pale horse]

Did they look like this http://www.geocities.com/krillbeniggaz/ ......

 

[SoDFW Jason]

Pale- 10baseT be the hardest of all yo!!! Weez out!!

 

[jmbg29]

 

[Sisco]

pale horse - Does the website have an English version?

 

[pale horse]

Sisco that is bonics.... Did you not learn it in High School?

 

[spacemanspiff]

deez clownz be all 'dat AND a baggy of doritaz!

http://www.geocities.com/thestuntaz/

 

[Sisco]

bonics. No, I must've skipped class that day.
While we're sharing URAL's here's one for the bunch my daughter hangs out with. Looks like they've upgraded the site, it's not 100% yet.
www.firesquadpunks.com

 

[HABU]

Way to go O. Porter Glockwell, see what you have started?

 

[CWL]

I palmed the gun ...

Doubt they were real gangstas since around here, you wouldn't have made it home. The Bloods and Crips around here wouldn't let you disrespect them like that, neither would a Hell's Angel.

Not the smartest thing to grab a stranger's gun. I would have treated someone grabbing my gun as a prelude to an assault.

They paid their money, let them shoot. If they're unsafe, tell the rangemasters since it's their job.

Explain again why it's your job?

 

[Combat-wombat]

Ax yo trip! We all balli'n wit' them twin fo-fo's and dem glocks poppin' some shots at da range yo wit dat pimped-out colt six-shooter 3-5-7 it's all good, homey? Yo, bust a couple caps in dem crips wit dat T-9, pop in the tripped out caddy and f***ing roll out! That be right, b**ch?

 

[CZ-75]

Fo' shnizzle, dog.

Word.

 

[WonderNine]

What conclusion would you draw from a bunch of folks dressed in their best "urban" attire, fresh off the boat, with a top of the line handgun they can't figure out how to use properly? I guess that would be racial profiling, but I'd have a hard time believing that all these things don't add up to a situation worth investigating.

Seriously, in your first post I thought you were joking until I read this.

 

[Dash Riprock]

As a lifelong resident of Richard Daley's li'l dictatorship by the lake, I just wanna say "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck.......".

If y'all want to be enlightened liberals and give people the benefit of the doubt, that's up to you.

Speaking for myself, when I see people like that, I go into condition red, and grasp the handle of the gun that I'm not supposed to have 'cause it's against the law.

 

[biere]

Unloading a firearm that way tells me either they have no manual to the firearm and don't wish to learn by asking at a gun store or on the net or writing to the gun maker, or they are too ignorant to RTFM to something they can't even pretend to understand well.

I figure unloading it that way will eventually hurt the crane a bit and maybe get some lead coming out the side, I will be long gone by then.

As for profiling, people on this board do it all the time I bet. If you see a round with a dent in the case do you use it? A small dent maybe, but what about a big crease? What about a high primer, a back wards primer, a bullet shoved way into the case?

Profiling is simply reading signs, and if people dress and act a certain way I accept that info and deduce something. Yes I am wrong a lot, but that is because I work with new info and learn.

I have a rpoblem with the police or gov. trying to say they can profile people and take action against them because of it. But I sure can do it and leave an area if I feel that may be a good idea.

 

[TheOtherOne]

Profiling is simply reading signs, and if people dress and act a certain way I accept that info and deduce something.

You forgot color of skin and spoken language.

 

[OF]

If you can't see the difference between someone's chosen mode of dress and behavior and the color of their skin, I don't know how to explain it to you.

- Gabe