Anyone in belfast? 3 people shot in 24 hours. 1 dead.

[MarthaCliffYouCunt]

belfast live

What is happening? Its not just shootings, massive increase in pensioner attacks/muggings. It feels like we're going backwards.

I hadn't heard it. Our friends live and work there.

Its shocking isnt it. Very worrying.

I know, it's horrible isn't it! I work in Belfast but live about 45 minutes away. I count my lucky stars because I feel that here, it's all an accident of birth or "there but for the grace of god...." in terms of how well life turns out. So much is defined by where you are born/brought up here.

Husband and I were commenting on these shootings last night....it is scary because these things tend to escalate and spill over into society at large. I am old enough to remember some very dark days indeed and I don't want that to erupt here again.

I have long felt that the Assembly's failure to address social issues in poorer parts of our communities has meant that since the Good Friday Agreement, many of "The Boys" have continued on as before: some of it is politically/idealogically motivated but I think so much of it is just outright gangster-ism and holding communities to ransom with drugs/intimidation etc

For so many at the bottom of the social ladder, there just aren't the opportunities [and maybe the will] to get out of the spiral.

Scary biccies

Same here ipoke, i'm about 45 minutes away from belfast.
So true what you say about accident of birth. My parents lived in belfast when they married and moved away to where I live now before i was born. How different my life could have turned out had they not moved.

It must feel like a very unsafe place right now for those close to the victims of all this.