PLN 21

What matters in the world today is a NYC pizza delivery man who fended off two armed robbers while delivering the pie. Assami Semde was delivering two pizzas and was stopped by two armed men. The men tried to take the pizzas from Assami, but he refused. One of the men hit him over the head with his gun, at which point Assami punched him and threw him into the wall. The other men punched Assami and the two began fighting. Assami screamed, which attracted the security of the apartment building he was in, and the two men fled. Assami is a recent immigrant to America from Africa, and has been told by his boss to just hand over the pizza if something like it ever happens again. This made me wonder, did Assami instinctively fight for the food because it was how he grew up? Most African countries are impoverished and most people starve every night. So maybe Assami was accustom to having to defend himself. If this really is the case, I think that more aid should be sent to Africa; not in the form of money because that is just consumed by corrupt governments, but in the form of things like the Peace Corps. People should be sent to hand out food and help as many people as they can. From my point of view, people should not have to fight each other for food, and although what Assami did was heroic, he should never have been forced to react in that way.