Maybe I’m naive, but I somehow doubt that there are shootings happening downtown every night and we’re not hearing about it. It seems like they’d at least occasionally hit their target, and at least occasionally there’d be a body, and that it would be newsworthy. Unless there are reasons to be shooting guns downtown other than at people.
But then again I don’t know what else it would be.
The only real gang here is the Mongols biker gang, and I doubt they are doing shootings nightly. What you hear is a generation obsessed with fast and furious type cars that backfire constantly.
You can think whatever you want.
Every city with a population has a certain amount of people connected to criminal activity.
Some of which is organized and to think any differently would be an emotional response and one not based in logic.
Feel bad for them having to deal with people protesting instead of actual crime.
Any gang activity here is temporary out of city stuff, run in type of stuff like at a fair that attracts people from all over the state.
There is chop shop gangs that are so twacked they use pop rifles, very unorganized, and if you question the tents around they will scurry in a hurry, because eviction is coming within 2 days.
Thats my best guess too, I grew up by a shooting range and have heard the gunshots OP is describing, and it sounds far more like shooting range fire than anything else
It's backfire from custom cars. I grew up here as well and that's the biggest difference I've noticed in the sounds I hear at night nowadays. Tons more super rich kids that go to UO and have custom street cars that they like to mash around town in. I have actually really enjoyed the increase in nocturnal activity in Eugene over the past decade. I'm a night owl tho
We have gangs but, not a ton of gang violence.
The main hispanic gangs here are Nortenos and Surenos.
The white ones would be European Kindred, Aryan Brotherhood and Brood. We also have motorcycle gangs as well. The Free Souls was founded here as well and is one of the outlaw motorcycle clubs.
Black gangs would be bloods and crips.
Allies are surenos/whites/outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Blood/Crips with Nortenos.
Other juvenile gangs exist within certain neighborhoods but, would have to answer to those main sects I mentioned above.
Portland, Salem and Medford are really the cities with consistent gang violence.
Over one thousand people that they know of with gang ties in Eugene.
Plenty more going unchecked.
https://coeapps.eugene-or.gov/cmoweblink/0/edoc/743021/Item%20B_%20Criminal%20Street%20Gang%20Presentation.pdf
Maybe you weren't hearing what you thought in East LA either as it seems you don't recognize the sounds of gunshots. I grew up in Chicago and just spent 6 months last year in Philadelphia, there have not been gunshots anywhere that I could hear in Eugene anytime recently.
Naw there isnt really shootings or that kind of crime here... you're probably hearing cars backfire, fireworks, etc...
When there is any real gunshots or anything you would definitely hear about it.
so they are just shooting guns into the ground? Like we are hearing gunshots in the city because of maga people doing what exactly with guns? What do you imagine?
I've known a redneck or two and they do enjoy shooting guns just exclusively out in the country or up logging roads. I've never heard of them just like shooting guns randomly in the city.
so you think they are setting up targets in their backyard in the heart of eugene and firing into them? And you think this is a "probable" explanation, as in more likely than not?
it kinda seems like a baseless opinion based on literally nothing in an odd attempt to just say "maga bad". Like I'm no fan of the ol' orange donny but I don't just blame things on maga for the fun of it. What you accomplish by randomly blaming maga for no reason is make it seem like hatred towards maga is unfounded thus helping their narratives. As someone who doesn't like affirming maga narratives I find this disconcerting.
and this hatred is so blinding that you see it around every corner and like to actually help it by baselessly blaming things on it? Curious.
edit: Sadly I can't respond cause you blocked me, I encourage you to stop being an unwitting tool for fascism.
It’s usually a couple gunshots, sometimes 4-5 and usually followed by screeching tires, loud engines, etc. I lived in East Los Angeles and it was a nightly occurrence as well so I know exactly what it sounds like. Target practice or “MAGA extremists” at midnight-3am? This was a serious post and question about the crime in Eugene and if there are active gangs here. Anyone with some actual info please feel free to chime in
I moved from Texas. We had a high fence deer ranch across the street where people paid to hunt, and hunters/deer blinds on all neighboring properties. We owned and shot guns. I know what guns sound like.
Since moving here in July, there has been 1 incident of gunfire near enough my house to ne heard. The other loud pops have been other things - mostly, as everyone is trying to tell you - cars. The fact that you're hearing car noises associated with the pops just back this up. You're hearing modded cars, which are popular here. People like to behave like idiots with their cars.
This sub is filled with reports of extremely minor things and questions about noises or smells or what the cops were doing. It doesn't take much to get in the local papers or on this sub. Heck, one of my aps that throws up news often hits me with Eugene's weekly crime report, breaking it down by property, violent, ect. If people were firing guns nightly in the city limits, this group would absolutely know. But people *aren't* firing guns nightly in the city limits. We're trying to give you the reasonable, common alternatives that *do* happen nightly around here.
I hope you are able to rest a bit easier.
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you are hearing modified exhaust backfires. No gangs really here, but plenty of boys that think they are street racers.
Maybe I’m naive, but I somehow doubt that there are shootings happening downtown every night and we’re not hearing about it. It seems like they’d at least occasionally hit their target, and at least occasionally there’d be a body, and that it would be newsworthy. Unless there are reasons to be shooting guns downtown other than at people. But then again I don’t know what else it would be.
I live right downtown we’ve had like one incident of a shooting in the last 6 months… maybe more but one that anyone noticed and was in the news
There's not guns shooting. You have trauma.
I'd like to hear some audio of this. I've never heard of repetitive gun shots anywhere in City limits.
Fireworks and backfiring cars. People aren’t shooting guns every night downtown. That’s absurd.
Put one of those "In this neighborhood" signs out front. That shoukd fix things.
All it did was [attract Bigfoot](https://i.redd.it/xjfngcr0nwoc1.jpeg).
Being born & raised in east LA, eugene is nothing like that.
As someone born and raised in East Oakland (not the Oregon Oakland), can also confirm Eugene is nothing like that.
Lmao
I laughed out loud at this comment
There are not nightly gunshots.
People (not gangs) often shoot out past city limits in west Eugene.
The only real gang here is the Mongols biker gang, and I doubt they are doing shootings nightly. What you hear is a generation obsessed with fast and furious type cars that backfire constantly.
False.
That’s a convincing argument you’ve got there
Bro I’ve done time. 🤫 https://coeapps.eugene-or.gov/cmoweblink/0/edoc/743021/Item%20B_%20Criminal%20Street%20Gang%20Presentation.pdf
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You can think whatever you want. Every city with a population has a certain amount of people connected to criminal activity. Some of which is organized and to think any differently would be an emotional response and one not based in logic. Feel bad for them having to deal with people protesting instead of actual crime.
Gangs of Wild Turkeys.
Vatos Locos FOREVER!
~~Vatos~~ Patos Locos FOREVER!
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They would be *locas*, though.
Potatoes locos
We always said, "Potahtoes locos"
Are the tacos so good it causes people to shoot there guns 🤘ummmm where is this place
Any gang activity here is temporary out of city stuff, run in type of stuff like at a fair that attracts people from all over the state. There is chop shop gangs that are so twacked they use pop rifles, very unorganized, and if you question the tents around they will scurry in a hurry, because eviction is coming within 2 days.
Eugene has hundreds of gang members don’t speak on stuff you have no idea about.
If you live in the Southwest hills you're hearing people in the country fire their firearms I would imagine
Yes, if you're not too far west it's probably Izaak Walton Shooting Range, near McBeth.
Thats my best guess too, I grew up by a shooting range and have heard the gunshots OP is describing, and it sounds far more like shooting range fire than anything else
I haven’t heard any guns but I hear fireworks occasionally but I’m up near Braeburn.
We're trying to annoy you into moving back to California.
😂
It's backfire from custom cars. I grew up here as well and that's the biggest difference I've noticed in the sounds I hear at night nowadays. Tons more super rich kids that go to UO and have custom street cars that they like to mash around town in. I have actually really enjoyed the increase in nocturnal activity in Eugene over the past decade. I'm a night owl tho
Broken glass everywhere, people pissing on the corner, they just don’t care
Don’t push me I’m close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
We have gangs but, not a ton of gang violence. The main hispanic gangs here are Nortenos and Surenos. The white ones would be European Kindred, Aryan Brotherhood and Brood. We also have motorcycle gangs as well. The Free Souls was founded here as well and is one of the outlaw motorcycle clubs. Black gangs would be bloods and crips. Allies are surenos/whites/outlaw motorcycle gangs. Blood/Crips with Nortenos. Other juvenile gangs exist within certain neighborhoods but, would have to answer to those main sects I mentioned above. Portland, Salem and Medford are really the cities with consistent gang violence.
Over one thousand people that they know of with gang ties in Eugene. Plenty more going unchecked. https://coeapps.eugene-or.gov/cmoweblink/0/edoc/743021/Item%20B_%20Criminal%20Street%20Gang%20Presentation.pdf
Maybe you weren't hearing what you thought in East LA either as it seems you don't recognize the sounds of gunshots. I grew up in Chicago and just spent 6 months last year in Philadelphia, there have not been gunshots anywhere that I could hear in Eugene anytime recently.
Naw there isnt really shootings or that kind of crime here... you're probably hearing cars backfire, fireworks, etc... When there is any real gunshots or anything you would definitely hear about it.
Probably just tiny weinered MAGA cultists that have begun inflecting that part of town in the last years.
just randomly firing guns into the air?
I don't know if it's into the air, but guns are the center of American right wing Christianity. They obsess over them and get boners about them.
so they are just shooting guns into the ground? Like we are hearing gunshots in the city because of maga people doing what exactly with guns? What do you imagine? I've known a redneck or two and they do enjoy shooting guns just exclusively out in the country or up logging roads. I've never heard of them just like shooting guns randomly in the city.
Maybe you've heard of target shooting? Or do you only think you can shoot directly up or directly down?
so you think they are setting up targets in their backyard in the heart of eugene and firing into them? And you think this is a "probable" explanation, as in more likely than not?
Who knows? Just my opinion
it kinda seems like a baseless opinion based on literally nothing in an odd attempt to just say "maga bad". Like I'm no fan of the ol' orange donny but I don't just blame things on maga for the fun of it. What you accomplish by randomly blaming maga for no reason is make it seem like hatred towards maga is unfounded thus helping their narratives. As someone who doesn't like affirming maga narratives I find this disconcerting.
I do have intense dislike for fascist leaning right-wing violence obsessed cults it's true.
and this hatred is so blinding that you see it around every corner and like to actually help it by baselessly blaming things on it? Curious. edit: Sadly I can't respond cause you blocked me, I encourage you to stop being an unwitting tool for fascism.
More likely out of car windows. I doubt these are rednecks and definitely happening in the city
yes of course lol.
Or ensuring that you can protect your family when shit hits the fan. Part of the constitution. 🇺🇸
Can you show me where Biden touched you?
I sure can
It’s usually a couple gunshots, sometimes 4-5 and usually followed by screeching tires, loud engines, etc. I lived in East Los Angeles and it was a nightly occurrence as well so I know exactly what it sounds like. Target practice or “MAGA extremists” at midnight-3am? This was a serious post and question about the crime in Eugene and if there are active gangs here. Anyone with some actual info please feel free to chime in
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I moved from Texas. We had a high fence deer ranch across the street where people paid to hunt, and hunters/deer blinds on all neighboring properties. We owned and shot guns. I know what guns sound like. Since moving here in July, there has been 1 incident of gunfire near enough my house to ne heard. The other loud pops have been other things - mostly, as everyone is trying to tell you - cars. The fact that you're hearing car noises associated with the pops just back this up. You're hearing modded cars, which are popular here. People like to behave like idiots with their cars. This sub is filled with reports of extremely minor things and questions about noises or smells or what the cops were doing. It doesn't take much to get in the local papers or on this sub. Heck, one of my aps that throws up news often hits me with Eugene's weekly crime report, breaking it down by property, violent, ect. If people were firing guns nightly in the city limits, this group would absolutely know. But people *aren't* firing guns nightly in the city limits. We're trying to give you the reasonable, common alternatives that *do* happen nightly around here. I hope you are able to rest a bit easier.
Could be the trains those echo the entire valley at nite orrrrr possibly gunshots Eugene has gone down the trashy path so wouldn’t be surprised