Life in this great city.....

"There's a shootout on the plantation, so hard to understand....why some people got to hurt somebody? The firewater's not the villain..." Leon Russell

Ahhh, nothing like waking up on a Sunday morning only to look at the local paper and read that yet another Indiana Pacer was involved in yet another "incident". Luckily no one was killed, but there was at least one injury, and a complete shootout in downtown Indianapolis. There have been over 100 homicides in the city this year, so far. How safe is the city? Not very. Athletes are easily recognized in the community, as this is Indianapolis, not LA or New York. I don't really care about the actual story, you know.... night clubs, guns, cars, intimidation, assault, court, ect. I am much more troubled by our society as a whole. We live our lives out everyday as if this isn't really happening a few miles away from us (or next door for that matter). It has been well documented that the athletes, who are payed handsomely to play their respective sports in this city, have had numerous "incidents" over the past couple of years. The Pacer players aren't the only people in Naptown getting in trouble, that is for sure, but what in the hell is going on here? Children being murdered....BY THEIR PARENTS, people being shot in broad daylight, assault rifle gun fights in the middle of downtown, and hundreds of more violent crimes occuring all over the county. Why? Is it the lack of police in the streets? The economy? How about parenting? Who knows, but something has to give, or we may not have enough players field a team (mediocre, I might add) at Conseco Fieldhouse.