7 people were shot dead in the last 3 days in Memphis. No arrest yet. One was mowing his lawn. Seems to be random. I guess Mempho is trying to catch up to Chitown. But plainly it has to be way too many guns on the "street" whatever that means. Just not enough gun control I guess.

Wow. I didn't know about the city's composition but at 670,000 population, it's one of the largest cities in the south.

As guessed, Democrat controlled.

" The racial composition of Memphis is:

Black or African American: 62.6%
White: 31.7% (non-Hispanic: 29.5%)
Asian: 1.7% Native American: 0.2%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.1%
Other race: 2.7%
Two or more races: 1.2%
Hispanic or Latino of any race: 5.0%

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Memphis is the poorest city in the United States with a median household income of $32,285, or $37,767 for a family. 17% of families and almost 21% of the population lives below the poverty line, including 30% of people under the age of 18. " Link Link

I sure don't know the answer, but that has to be a bad way to live. The largest age group is 20-25.

Sad... just sad.
My daughter and son-in-law just moved to Arlington, a bit north of Memphis. He works at Millington.

We livin' tha dream....

Difference in Memphis and Chicago? They had 58 people shot, 6 died. We had 10 shootings, 7 dead.

Takeaway? In Memphis, we will killify you.

Thankfully - not fully Democrat controlled. But heavily influenced.

The money is in Shelby County. The city made a play recently to gain control of that but failed. So they off-loaded a major issue on the County by giving up their City School Charter. So the County took over the School system. That forced even more "White Flight" and lots of families and money left for Germantown and Collierville.

Yes - Memphis is a giant toilet with HUGE Racial Issues. And I isn't going to get better anytime soon.

Andrew

It's a puzzler, ain't it?

An enigma. If my grandpa were still alive, I bet he could explain it.

It seems like most if not all big cities become one big toilet.

Most have good sections and awful sections, but overall the crime is aplenty.

Never a dull moment. Carry a gun do I? Hell I usually carry at least 2 with spare mags for each.

In a low turnout election the dems just took the county mayor and county sheriffs seats. I voted at lunch downtown (should have been really busy). Parking lot full of dems handing out the "voting guides". 6 poll workers. 15 machines. I was the only SOB voting, no line, nobody else at a machine. Sad.

Signed the contract on a house one county over yesterday.

It was necessary to pass through Memphis coming out here. I made sure my bladder was empty and gas tank full so I wouldn't need to stop, as well as its counterpart on the other side of the Mississippi, West Memphis, AR. The interstates through the city are a mess as well. It is my understanding that a wide, straight-through route was planned but never built due to protests about "destroying communities." Once you get out of the city limits everything is nice again.

We took in Beale Street and Mud Island. Mud Island with it's scale model of the Mississippi River is cool, but I didn't feel at ease at all anywhere else in Memphis and was glad to get out of there ASAP. Passing through I won't get off the interstate again.

Mud Island.
A thousand miles of the lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans and finally to the Gulf of Mexico, where the river empties, is replicated in a section of the park called the Riverwalk. Built at the scale of 30 inches to a mile, the replica spans 2,000 feet of riverfront space where every sandbar, oxbow, and topographic contour is faithfully reproduced in cement.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/...pi-river-on-mud.html

....COUNTY..........................POPULATION
1...Shelby County...(Memphis).......936,961
2...Davidson County...(Nashville)...691,243
3...Knox County...(Knoxville).......461,860


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And Graceland. We drove by but thankfully it was closed!

I remember back in the 90's going to watch a basketball game with a friend at the Pyramid Arena., this was when Penny Hardaway was playing. Both of us remarked that Memphis wasn't the safest place around and there wasn't much to stick around to see/do and continue on our road trip. Granted we were quite a bit younger so, 'cultural things' weren't on our radar but, there was a continuous ghetto kind of vibe we got. I'm sure there's nice, and nicer areas but, where we went through sure made an impression. Quite the difference from Nashville.

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Originally posted by dusty3030:
Signed the contract on a house one county over yesterday.

Congratulations !! We moved one county north in 2000. 20x the land and twice the house and property taxes are less than half of what they were in Memphis.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:
We livin' tha dream....

Difference in Memphis and Chicago? They had 58 people shot, 6 died. We had 10 shootings, 7 dead.

Takeaway? In Memphis, we will killify you.

Think of it this way ; Memphis is beating expectations by 600 %.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy

Congratulations !! We moved one county north in 2000. 20x the land and twice the house and property taxes are less than half of what they were in Memphis.

Thanks! Headed east to Fayette county.
40 acres, nicer house - less than 1/2 the taxes.

Almost wish I hadn’t seen this. My med-school daughter arrived in Memphis on Sunday to do a four week rotation at UT medical center. Now I’m going to have to tell her to be careful (again) and pray even more.

Prayers for her and her safety from SIGForum members are also greatly appreciated.

"Mogadishu on the Mississippi" is what someone here calls Memphis.

The only way to go in many parts of Memphis is with a crew served, belt fed weapon. And a back up.

Forgot the AC-130 overhead. And a helicopter extraction team on standby.

When the armed forces were sending their surgeons to train in the trauma center...you know it’s bad.

Andrew

Memphis has a higher rate of homicide than Chicago based on population. I spent an evening on Beale last Fall and felt safe. There were lots of police around. We did not spend the night, but stayed at a motel several miles South.

Like the comedian said, Memphis, home of BBQ and murder.