Originally Posted by
corktownyuppie
I understand where your alarm is coming from. I only live 1/2 mile from there or so. At the same time, downtown doesn't feel any less safe to me. I mean, your much more likely to find me at the MGM Casino or a Tiger game on a Saturday night than at a thuggish club at 1am on a Wednesday.
Hate to say it, but with rare exception, most of the shootings at these sorts of incidents involve young men in crowded nightclubs. You don't ever hear of a drug deal gone bad at the DIA. It's never, "I was playing bocce ball at Campus Martius, and then all of sudden 7 dudes roll up in an Escalade and just firing everywhere." Or "An incident involving 5 guys arguing about a Coney Dog at Lafayette Coney Island turned ugly when someone pulled a gun and started firing."
It's sad to say, but I'm not shocked when I hear things got dangerous at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday night at a club catering to the "thug life" demographic.