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January 31, 2011, 06:55 PM | #26 |
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Always carry when and where legal.
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January 31, 2011, 08:29 PM | #27 |
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If I were a criminal I would target a neighborhood just like mine.
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February 1, 2011, 10:50 AM | #28 |
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No such thing as a nice neighborhood. Unless you are in Fort Knox - what's nice? Congresswoman Gifford was in a nice neighbhorhood. The Petits were in a nice neighborhood. My most scary time was going to an upscale cello concert.
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February 1, 2011, 06:52 PM | #29 |
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We are in a nice neighborhood.....
Last summer my girlfriend came home from work and the streets were blocked off since someone pulled over jumped from his car with a gun and was running thru the area. The cops never told anyone, she called me on her cell phone to say she would be 1/2 late or so. We did not own anything at the time so I could only sit there and try to call the neighbors to warn them.
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February 1, 2011, 07:21 PM | #30 |
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Everyone pretty much summed it up. No one is safe in any location at any given time. Better to be prepared for your life than not to be. Once I did not have my firearm on me when I went into a convenient store and some shady people walked in. I was with my girl and usually I think steps through to protect her and myself, play it over in my head just in case. I though she was going to stay in the car (where I leave the G22 or 1911 by her side with the car locked I run in and get the snacks for our home movie and that's it) but she came down as I go out. COMPLETELY slipped my mind and wasn't thinking about doubling back to grab my gun tuck it in and go. There were people standing in front of my car. It was at night 7-11. So anyways, inside and played the scene in my head the "what if scenarios" only to realize. Seriously..now, what if? I felt so naked that one time. Had something happened to her I'd never live myself and had something happened to me. My pops would have thought he taught me better.
It may sound dramatic but if you've been there you know that feeling right? Anyways nothing happened. And there are times my martial arts really cannot save me. That time felt like it. Miami folks carry guns legally and illegally. Even the dirt bags. |
February 2, 2011, 01:57 AM | #31 |
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Young man was killed at the gas station I fill up at all of the time. Next to my very nice neighborhood. He wasn't a gang banger, drug dealer or anything else. They just wanted the money he was carrying. In the last six weeks I believe we have had three shootings in town. Now that is on the northside and I live on the south side. About 7 miles away. (Big distance.) I believe those were drug related. We live between two major cities and get a lot of trash moving their "stuff" around. I don't want to be caught in some stupid cross fire at Wally world and not be able to defend myself just because I am in a nice area of town.
Carry everywhere you can. Heck, I have a pistol very close to me right now on the computer. Just sayin' |
February 2, 2011, 02:33 AM | #32 |
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If I am awake, I am armed....even in church.
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February 2, 2011, 09:23 AM | #33 | |
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February 2, 2011, 09:51 AM | #34 |
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I live in a nice neighborhood, not really actually, I live in the country and don't even have a key to my house. But I still carry. Came out of the shop one night and shot a fox getting my chickens, more then once I've had to dispatch rattlers in my yards, last fall shot one under my back steps.
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February 2, 2011, 10:14 AM | #35 |
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Nice Neighborhood
I also grew up in a fairly nice neighborhood in Las Vegas during the 70s. It was middle class and outside of the casino areas. Before we moved, we experienced three attempted burglaries. Someone was home during each of the three attempts and fortunately was armed. No one was ever injured but you can be sure that my parents carried all of the time.
As others have said, the criminals know where to shop. Last edited by TexRanger; February 2, 2011 at 12:54 PM. |
February 2, 2011, 11:00 AM | #36 | |
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A paragraph from Marko Kloos
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February 2, 2011, 01:53 PM | #37 | |
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The slums are dangerous because that's where they live. Nice neighborhoods are dangerous because that's where they hunt.
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