Suspect Arrested in Shooting of Two Men

When these pieces of *!#? stab each other, the incident remains confined to the two parties involved in the altercation.

When they start shooting each other, and only 2 of the 5 to 6 rounds fired from the gun hit their target, that leaves 3 to 4 bullets stray, only to find a home in the crib of a sleeping baby in a nearby house. Or the head of a innocent passer-byer. Or maybe to a pregnant mother walking out of the market on the corner.

How much more will we accept before we finally put a foot down. Are we trying to be the next Guadalupe? Where is the mayor with the keys to the handcuffs she has on our police? Why doesn't she have foot patrols seven nights a week in these neighborhoods? Does she want the violence to come to State Street on a Saturday afternoon?

Until we ship the 3rd world back to the 3rd world, I'm going to keep my gun(which I own and carry legally. I know amazing huh?) close at hand.

And by the way, I DON'T MISS!!!!!

livingsb & AShaw for City Council!!

Who's with me?

People like livingsb and AShaw have an illusion of SB that it's some paradise on the Central Coast and that it's possible to eliminate crime by shipping out undocumented immigrants. You're both wrong. Save your inflammatory comments for your Minute Men meeting. Immigration status has nothing to do with this shooting so it was not reported.

Probably the same punkasses selling meth down at the labor wall.

Everyone can cry all they want but it's only going to get worse. So enjoy it while you still can.

Rather than focusing on the fact that many of these gangs are made up of Mexicans, perhaps we should concider the fact that economics are to blame. NOT RACE!

Unless you personally plan on doing the jobs we are forced to take due to our circumstances, I really don't think you have the right to ignore the fact that your way of life is dependant on the cheap labor of illegal immigrants.

So, maybe if mexicans, and all other illegal immigrants were paid a living wage, we could get the education that is going to ennable us to get jobs which are engaging. It is true that a worthless job is worthless in stoping bullets, and until the people who contribute possitively to this community are accepted as valuable, other people of the same race will have no reason to aspire to anything other than violence. Because frankly, sometimes it feels like there's not much to aspire to.

How does saying 'deport them all' give this city any hope? Its unrealistic, nieve, and infuriating. You wonder why there are gangs? True, I agree completly that their tactics are misguided and destructive. But I hope that people realize that so much of this anger and violence comes out of frustration with the very mentality which you think is going to end it.

you with the commment about mex who picks you fruit and works the places you go to eat its pepole like you who would never think about going out in the fields to pick you fruits and veg you wont get your hands dirty the parents of most of they kids were are they and you races a.... go drink your coffee and eat your your food we picked for youuuuuu

What does it take to get a gang injunction?

Hey Pride805, have you heard of spell check?

I believe it's fair to say that everyone is concerned with crime in SB; some, obviously, more than others. My problem with your "solution" is that it involves ASSUMING Latino gang members are undocumented (and who gives a s**t if their parents are?), that they are the sole perpetrators of crimes here and that the LOCAL police should perform duties of the FEDERAL government. Call me naive but at least I'm not ignorant.

Re: racist label - no need to state the obvious, pal.

Actually bigyoonit, livingsb and AShaw are correct. I have worked in public service in Santa Barbara for almost a decade, I see the SB that most SB residents don’t realize exists and yet up until 2 years ago we were never seeing this kind of thing, yes we saw stabbings occasionally but most were domestic violence related, not gang; shootings were what we heard of happening in LA but were never seen in SB. I grew up and lived in this same neighborhood up until 3 years ago, and never saw this kind of thing happen before. Yeah there were fights and drunken brawls but stabbings – never saw one when I lived there for almost 20 years, and shootings – never. The cops have their hands extremely tightly handcuffed behind their backs and until the bosses with the keys untighten them or take them off completely we aren’t going to see a lot of change in the way of crime PREVENTION here. We all know that the federal government failed on more levels than we can count but that doesn’t mean that the local police have to fail.

And BmBm, when my family immigrated to the US, legally, we were broke. We had no money, my parents didn’t speak English and we are not Mexicans so no going around that path of getting a job. We started with nothing and yet somehow my parents made it, they worked 2 or 3 jobs each, making minimum wage and raising 5 kids, and on top of that went to night school to learn English, (how many Mexicans legal or otherwise live in the US for decades and still know not a word of English?) to give us a better opportunity, they found ways to put a roof over our heads and food on the table, and they helped pay for 5 college tuitions. So are economics to blame I don’t think so, my family had everything going against us yet we strived to get out of our situation and make something of ourselves because we owed that to ourselves and to the country and the people that opened up their home to us. Most Mexicans think it is their God-given right to live here and that Americans are just supposed to hand everything to them on a platter, well wake up and smell the f**king roses because it is not your f**king right, no one has to give you anything. It's up to you to make a better life for yourself, it's up to you to get yourself out of the cards that you were dealt.

My solution, lock the parents up right along side their kids maybe than the parents will finally start caring about their freaken kids and what they are doing with their lives.

Thank you MedicJ. Maybe you and I and AShaw( where are ya my friend?) should all run for city council.

One voice at a time my friends!

livingsb:
And I don't miss? Every shooter misses. Somehow I doubt you have a CCW. If you do, I hope the issuing agency reads your remarks. Your CCW would be history if my agency had issued it.

I laugh at all the comments here. There so funny! Just give it a few more years. You'll See

I think the Mexican government as well a a segment of US government are in cahoots with each other in keeping things just the way they are. By continuing and perpetrating a language barrier they can exploit the poor for all they are worth and the natural ability to defend themselves is greatly reduced by this natural"Berlin Wall" so to speak. In many European countries their youth are taught more than one language and it is a requirement of graduating High School. In California there is a need for Spanish to be taught to English speaking students and for English to be taught to Spanish speaking citizens, instead they just took away bi-lingual classes for Spanish speaking students. Maybe I'm being extremely simplistic but I think the powers that be know exactly what they are doing and how it profits them to continue doing business as usual. Mexico is a beautiful country why would anyone want to leave it unless they are not being paid fair wages or allowed opportunities to advance? Exploiting the poor and uneducated has been going on since the beginning of recorded history and sometimes simple solutions are all that is required to bring about radical change.