In Detroit, Self-Defense on the Rise

[Billybob]

[Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies...]


http://www.pagunblog.com/2012/02/07/in-detroit-self-defense-on-the-rise/

 

[pinkhamr]

I would like to see a 4,400% increase ........ JMO

 

[Old Fart]

It'll really be news when Chicago can say this.

But it should send a message. Don't screw with Granny! She's packing.

 

[tRidiot]

I don't get it.... the title is about self-defense, yet it sounds as if the article is talking about vigilantism.

Two very very different concepts.