Right, I made the choice not to be a fuckhead.  I didn't grow up in the hood so to speak, but I didn't grow up in Beverly Hills either.  We were poor.  We were on food stamps and free lunches at school.  My family wasn't educated.  I had people I knew into all kind of bad things including gangs and drugs.  I chose not to go that route, though I easily could have.  It's personal choices that people make.  I'm so sick of the excuses for them.

I voted TWAT, but only because I've seen Coma 5 times and TWAT only once, and that was with no Slash or BH.

I live in a nicer neighborhood.  Houses are 150K+, not super huge, but big enough and expensive enough to keep the impoverished out.  It is predominately African-American.  It is interesting to be the minority, I'll say that.  We smile and wave at people and get largely ignored.  It's an interesting dynamic to say the least.  Being poor isn't the issue...the same stuff (including drive bys) happens here.  It's a cultural thing.  You can't blame it on being poor.

At some point this is going to go too far and someone like Trump but a little less crazy is going to get all the support he needs by promising to take it to the radicals instead trying to be their friends.  The only thing that can stop this (and I've said it before) is the non-radical Muslims taking their religion back.  There's literally nothing we can do short of nuking the whole middle east to stop this, and I'm not sure that would work either (not to mention all the other reasons that is a bad idea).

I've been to 4 shows this year with essentially the same set list and I have no complaints. Sure, there's things I would love to see, but I can't complain about the shows I've gotten to see. Slash and Duff are back. Axl sounds great. Frank has laid off the speed. It's not perfect, but it's a gazillion times better than what we had.