Former Texan here. Moved in 2019. Never going back.

Especially since the soccer team was fine with playing in Cranston and upgrading Stebbins...

Sounds like a normal day in the good ole Lone Star State! Gun violence is very normalized. I remember talking about the shooting at my HS during my senior year when I first moved. I just casually dropped it in a conversation, and whoever I was talking to was like what???! Like they couldn’t imagine ever being in that situation.

We never said “if the school ever gets shot up” but “when the school gets shot up” during drills. Different world down there.

It was my heat bill for me.

When I open my electric bill each month I say to myself “Damn we are being fucked”.

Edit:sounds weird not saying people are moving here to commit crimes

Texas is fucking wild. I swear, hearing how people get shot at and it’s not considered attempted murder is nuts to me. Wild ‘modern’ west.

For now, I know of several people moving here but yeah I definitely won’t deny that.

Gun laws aside, it’s not as segregated here. That contributes to a lot of it.

I spent 3 semesters researching housing policies in undergrad & everything that increases crime and places minorities at a disadvantage is exactly what Texas does.

Way less crime because of way less people.

Providence born & raised. I left for 12 years, and was homesick the entire time. I will never leave again

What you heard may not have been a gun, could have been a two step backfire. They sound very similar. Welcome to Texas, where we can’t tell if someone’s truck is fucking up or if they’re unloading a clip!

But yeah, they’ve taken 10 steps back with all of these insanely loose gun laws. I’ve been wondering if their goal is to just create the state into some massive survival of the fittest challenge, seems that way.

It’s not that we’re more civilized, we just have an exponentially smaller population.

That last sentence really got to me, I’m sorry man. Truly am.

I don’t know if you mind but I listen to a lot of crime podcasts and they do a lot of advocacy work and I’ve heard only a small few (maybe like 4 cases) involving a murder or cold case in Rhode Island but there is this one and it’s this podcast called crime junkie, I’m a pretty avid fan and they do cover cases sent in. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of them but I’m all in favor of getting justice for crimes like these and I’d totally would email them and message them about this. Any awareness is good awareness and hearing story after story I can only imagine show frustrating it is not to see justice

I think it's more like, we're just a little more civilized up here so we wouldn't have as much of those either way. ME, NH, and VT, are all Constitutional Carry states. Definitely not as shooting-crazy as Texas. Or the gun control capitol of Chicago, for that matter....

Park for free along the sea wall, jump over the wall at the corner for free. If they try to trespass you site article 1 sections 16 & 17 of our state Constitution. We have inalienable rights to the shore. What the town of Narragansett has done since 1971 is unconstitutional. The beach is not an amusement ride, you can’t charge people money just to access it.

My father was beaten to death and left on the street to die. There was a brief investigation in that a detective asked some coworkers at my father's job if they noticed anything suspicious before his death but they determined it to be unsolvable within a couple days, closed the case, and never looked back. We've tried to raise awareness and pushed the police to investigate further but they have essentially laughed us off and it's been pretty impossible to get people to give a shit. There was never a motivation or suspect, just a man beaten to death and left on the street to die. It didn't appear to be a mugging as he had his wallet and watch. The police didn't make any effort beyond what I describe above so my siblings, my mother, and I are left with no answers and no justice. I understand some cases are unsolvable but the police didn't even try. I know you say RI isn't crazy but it feels crazy to me when something like this can happen and no one bats an eye about it.

Simple, short and to the point. Gotcha. That sucks though man hope you do find somewhere that you do feel that way about

No.

That's interesting. Lifelong RI resident and visited Texas not all that long ago Flew in and out from San Antonio. Last night in Texas was spent in a hotel next to the airport due to a early departure. Around midnight some dumbass drove by on the highway unloading his mag from a vehicle. Scared the shit out of me and I jumped out of bed and hit the floor. Was quite happy to come home. Fwiw I live near the rod and gun club and own a couple firearms. It's different for sure.

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Is people getting pushed onto train tracks a normal thing?

Did they never find the culprit? Is it an open case still? You don’t have to respond to these questions if they are too personal by the way, I am just honestly curious. Sorry if me asking upsets you. I do apologize in advance

I am talking about events on a much larger scale compared to isolated ones. Either way regardless of this post and it’s comments I’m really sorry you went through that man and that this state and it’s police failed you. I’ve never went though a traumatic family event like that so I do not know how it feels and I also hope it never happens to me either but I’m aware it could happen , doesn’t mean I am prepared. No one is. I hope you are healing and are in a better place from then though.