When there is a shooting or a shootout, why do people say "oh my God, it was like something out of the movies!"? Do they not realize that this kind of stuff happens in real life and on a pretty regular basis in some communities?

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• and, I feel blessed to see that this stuff happens, I know that If I hear a fight, I better duck behind a car.

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  by travel breeze on April 2nd, 2009

• sorry to hear that

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  by xxx on April 2nd, 2009

• It's okay. LIke I said, I feel blessed to realize how fast life can be lost, because I appreciate life more than someone who doesn't realize how vulnerable we are as humans, you know?

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  by travel breeze on April 2nd, 2009

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• maybe where you are from.

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  by xxx on April 2nd, 2009

• only a small percentage of Americans experience shootouts on a regular basis - that's where the saying comes from

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  by Someguy on April 2nd, 2009

• you said few people experience them in real life.....maybe few people where you are from. but in the hood, the vast majority of people experience them. i know that people living in the hood are a minority of the national population. i wasnt trying to correct you on that.
  my question was an attempt to point out the ignorance that some people think extreme violence only happens in fantasy.instead of saying"it was like something out of the movies" maybe they should say"it was like something out of compton,new orleans,baghdad."

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  by xxx on April 2nd, 2009

• If we said it is something out of Compton, then we'd be called racist bastards.
  For most people, everyday violence is fantasy. That is why most people say movies instead of Compton.

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  by Someguy on April 2nd, 2009

• by IGNORING the violence we are almost showing racism because we are acting like those people dont matter. growing up in the bottom, i resented the upper class people who wanted to act like the ghetto and the people and the problems facing them were nonexistant. and it wasnt just a racial thing because down here the rich people are black and hispanic too. i think they just take comfort in convincing theirself that violence only happens in movies. and as long as it doesnt affect them,oh well.

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  by xxx on April 3rd, 2009

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