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I imagine they’re also worried about escalation. The person who takes potshots with a pellet gun today, might do it with a long rifle tomorrow. They’ve already

I imagine they’re also worried about escalation. The person who takes potshots with a pellet gun today, might do it with a long rifle tomorrow. They’ve already crossed a lot of moral and legal lines already.

candiodari 9y ago
I think you'll find quite a sizeable population in the Bay Area thinks the tech industry, and especially it's workers, are the ones crossing moral lines. You know, displacing everyone and forcing people to move apart just so everything can be in one office. The issue is, in theory we live in a democracy ... and if there was a popular vote about letting the tech industry do to SanFran what it's been doing in the past, the techies would lose 90% to 10%, without a doubt.
- jimrandomh 9y ago
  The displacement happened because zoning boards allowed the construction of lots of office space, and disallowed construction of most new housing. The zoning boards were controlled by wealthy retirees who wanted the price of their houses to go up, not by techies; the techies got screwed too.
- DanBC 9y ago
  Pretty sure there's nothing that tech companies have done that justifies shooting at them.
  - candiodari 9y ago
    So what could they do that would actually have an effect ?
  - closeparen 9y ago
    We generally speak favorably of occupied communities violently expelling their colonizers, and express regret that populations which were forcibly relocated in history did not have the means to resist. Of course, an economic and population boom only reads this way due to the catastrophic failure of urban planning.
xvf22 9y ago
Yup, it's just damn difficult to guard all busses all the time from a determined adversary. Hopefully the person backs down instead of escalating.
- IntronExon 9y ago
  Hopefully, and there is no guarantee of further escalation, depending on the pathology/motivations of the shooter. Still, a lot of roads lead to thst escalatiom, especially if there is a thrill-seeking, or power-dominance aspect to the behavior. Humam behavior is notoriously hard to predict, but the biggest risk factors for violent, serial crime is a pattern of escalation. For example, from the world of sexually motivated crime, the peeping Tom is a concern because they might escalate, but most don’t. Of far greater concern is the peeping Tom thst stsrts to burgle underwear, engages in overt stalking behavior, etc. Once they reach the realm of attempted sexual assault, the risk of further escalation is much greater. By the same token the person who enjoys torturing cats today may become someone who tortures people tomorrow. I worry a lot about the future patterns of behavior from someone who is comfortable shooting pellets at busses full of people. I would guess the police are too, since they’ve seen where this kind of thing can lead.

candiodari 9y ago

I think you'll find quite a sizeable population in the Bay Area thinks the tech industry, and especially it's workers, are the ones crossing moral lines. You know, displacing everyone and forcing people to move apart just so everything can be in one office. The issue is, in theory we live in a democracy ... and if there was a popular vote about letting the tech industry do to SanFran what it's been doing in the past, the techies would lose 90% to 10%, without a doubt.

jimrandomh 9y ago
The displacement happened because zoning boards allowed the construction of lots of office space, and disallowed construction of most new housing. The zoning boards were controlled by wealthy retirees who wanted the price of their houses to go up, not by techies; the techies got screwed too.
DanBC 9y ago
Pretty sure there's nothing that tech companies have done that justifies shooting at them.
- candiodari 9y ago
  So what could they do that would actually have an effect ?
- closeparen 9y ago
  We generally speak favorably of occupied communities violently expelling their colonizers, and express regret that populations which were forcibly relocated in history did not have the means to resist. Of course, an economic and population boom only reads this way due to the catastrophic failure of urban planning.

xvf22 9y ago

Yup, it's just damn difficult to guard all busses all the time from a determined adversary. Hopefully the person backs down instead of escalating.

IntronExon 9y ago
Hopefully, and there is no guarantee of further escalation, depending on the pathology/motivations of the shooter. Still, a lot of roads lead to thst escalatiom, especially if there is a thrill-seeking, or power-dominance aspect to the behavior. Humam behavior is notoriously hard to predict, but the biggest risk factors for violent, serial crime is a pattern of escalation. For example, from the world of sexually motivated crime, the peeping Tom is a concern because they might escalate, but most don’t. Of far greater concern is the peeping Tom thst stsrts to burgle underwear, engages in overt stalking behavior, etc. Once they reach the realm of attempted sexual assault, the risk of further escalation is much greater. By the same token the person who enjoys torturing cats today may become someone who tortures people tomorrow. I worry a lot about the future patterns of behavior from someone who is comfortable shooting pellets at busses full of people. I would guess the police are too, since they’ve seen where this kind of thing can lead.