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Originally Posted by markshere2
We're in the woods, and it used to be "safe" but the meth cookers are damnear everywhere.
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The theoretical possibility of crime does not make a place dangerous. What is the crime RATE?
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Originally Posted by Hirlau
Why do you carry at all, then? AAAhhhh...Maybe you feel the posibility of use might be around that corner.
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Because I can? Because I want to? Because, like I said no place is truly "safe" but there are certainly places that are well and truly DANGEROUS. My question is not about the hypothetical "no place is safe..." It's about why people live in places that are CLEARLY and demonstrably more dangerous than would seem prudent.
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Originally Posted by fastforty
You're a lot less safe then you think you are.
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Well, not to pick a fight but in order for that statement to have ANY validity you would have to know how safe I think I am. For the record, the closest city to me, which is 25 miles away, has a crime rate averaging about 1/2 the national average. The FBI rates my particular zip code at "1" on a scale of 1-10. So I think I know, quite accurately, how safe or not safe I am.