Guns scare me.

 

Last week I was stuck in traffic on my way to work, in front of a school.  A cab passed by me going the other way.  Two cops on motorcycles decided to pass him.  The cab deliberately cut out in front of them, resulting in the cops plowing into the front of his car.

 

As they pulled themselves out the guy in the car in front of me opened his door and came out with a rather large gun in his hand.  He ran low across the door of my car, jumped beside the car and put his gun in the passenger window of the cab and started yelling at him.  The cops came over and dragged the cabbie out, roughed him up a bit and cuffed him.  The other guy ran back to his car... turns out he was a plain clothes cop.  Never-the-less having a guy with a gun run beside your car is not a pleasant feeling.

 

The police recently killed the number criminal in Jamaica - a don by the name of "Bulbie".  This has sparked basically a war between the gangs and the cops.  In Spanish Town the gangs attacked the police station.  The gangs also decided to start shooting and kiilling randomn people on the roads through Spanish Town.  The police have stepped up pressure by killing more gang members.  Apparently now they are saying the whole community was corrupt - http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20051105/index.html

 

I've been told that November and December are the murder months.  The murder rate tends to spike upwards - no reason was given by those who told this to me.  'Tis the season perhaps.