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The Bloomberg/Soros machine has a lot of trolls out there hitting every news story on the web blaming the 2nd Amendment and/or the NRA for every shooting.kayt00 wrote:Sadder are some of the comments below such as "The 2nd Amendment strikes again...". Sigh, Poor soulless, mushi brained children.
bblhd672 wrote:The Bloomberg/Soros machine has a lot of trolls out there hitting every news story on the web blaming the 2nd Amendment and/or the NRA for every shooting.kayt00 wrote:Sadder are some of the comments below such as "The 2nd Amendment strikes again...". Sigh, Poor soulless, mushi brained children.
I work on a federal reservation (campus for any PC folks) and can't carry and leave it in my car under threat of termination. Hacks me off but that is one of the consequences for being paid a living wage. Was working there before I had a LTC.Take Down Sicko wrote:Just wondering if the deceased supervisor had an LTC and was unable to carry on the job.
I respectfully disagree. There are people who have the mentality "Oh that stuff doesn't happen in real life" or "Well that will never happen to me" or "that only happens in the movies". I think if people actually knew how much crime went on it would change their views a bit... my girlfriend for example use to be like that. but we've been dating for 4 years now and she now no longer leaves her keys in her car when she goes somewhere. always locks the doors on her car. always sleeps with her henry repeater next to her bed. checks and double checks to make sure the doors are locked at night. she still does some things that irk me and seem reckless to me like she siad the other day an elderly couple had a flat tire on the highway so she stopped to help them. I would never do that. for all she knows there could be their son laying down in the back seat with a shotgun ready for an ambush. or how she will walk places sometimes. she says "oh its just 2 blocks away" yeah but all it takes for a BG is 20 feet to sneak up on you. I think its a good thing that people are reporting everyday crimes. not only doesnt it help people with "im immune" mentalities but it also keeps people like me who live in the middle of nowhere up to date on where a lot of the crime is happening. Like I wont be visiting houston anytime soon. or austin. those 2 places seem to have skyrocketing crime rates here lately.G26ster wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I don't get all the postings about robberies, murders, or assaults as somehow being something new or different. Regardless of country, state, city or town, or neighborhood, criminals and crazies have been perpetrating crime since time began. Sure, nothing wrong with reminders, but is there anyone on a LTC type forum unaware of the situation or the need for protection? As I said, maybe it's just me, but IMHO, these posts serve no useful purpose that I can see. Now if it is a case of something that would enable a LTC to "improve" their defense strategy or provide "useful" infomation, I'm all for it. But simply posting about a common violent crime, for the sake of just reporting it, is something I don't understand. But hey, I'm old and cranky, so forgive me if you disagree.
Respectfully, my point was that this is a forum of "informed" individuals, not a forum of individuals who think, "oh that stuff doesn't happen in real life." IOW, threads such as this one are preaching to the choir. In 2015 there were 1.5 million violent crimes in the U.S. That's over 3400 per day. Are some worthy of note to LTC's? Sure, but a vast majority are just the usual crimes that have been happening in locales since time began, and provide no useful information to the LTC. If we posted all or most of them here, Charles would need a lot more server space. It would be a lot more useful, if you are trying to avoid high crime areas to simply Google the area for crime rate, rather than relying on a few posts per day/week on the forum. I don't want to engage in a spat with you, or demean your post in any way, but if you relied on posts here to determine where it is safe and where it is not, I imagine you would now avoid all construction sites. In the end, the members of the forum usually believe that no place is "safe" and that is why they carry. Again, im not trying to offend anyone, just rendering an opinion which members can always disagree with.Grundy1133 wrote:I respectfully disagree. There are people who have the mentality "Oh that stuff doesn't happen in real life" or "Well that will never happen to me" or "that only happens in the movies". I think if people actually knew how much crime went on it would change their views a bit... my girlfriend for example use to be like that. but we've been dating for 4 years now and she now no longer leaves her keys in her car when she goes somewhere. always locks the doors on her car. always sleeps with her henry repeater next to her bed. checks and double checks to make sure the doors are locked at night. she still does some things that irk me and seem reckless to me like she siad the other day an elderly couple had a flat tire on the highway so she stopped to help them. I would never do that. for all she knows there could be their son laying down in the back seat with a shotgun ready for an ambush. or how she will walk places sometimes. she says "oh its just 2 blocks away" yeah but all it takes for a BG is 20 feet to sneak up on you. I think its a good thing that people are reporting everyday crimes. not only doesnt it help people with "im immune" mentalities but it also keeps people like me who live in the middle of nowhere up to date on where a lot of the crime is happening. Like I wont be visiting houston anytime soon. or austin. those 2 places seem to have skyrocketing crime rates here lately.G26ster wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I don't get all the postings about robberies, murders, or assaults as somehow being something new or different. Regardless of country, state, city or town, or neighborhood, criminals and crazies have been perpetrating crime since time began. Sure, nothing wrong with reminders, but is there anyone on a LTC type forum unaware of the situation or the need for protection? As I said, maybe it's just me, but IMHO, these posts serve no useful purpose that I can see. Now if it is a case of something that would enable a LTC to "improve" their defense strategy or provide "useful" infomation, I'm all for it. But simply posting about a common violent crime, for the sake of just reporting it, is something I don't understand. But hey, I'm old and cranky, so forgive me if you disagree.
But my girlfriend isn't a member of the forum so when is ee things like this i can tell her about them and help her see that bad thigns do happen all the time regardless of what reality she chooses to live in. lolG26ster wrote:Respectfully, my point was that this is a forum of "informed" individuals, not a forum of individuals who think, "oh that stuff doesn't happen in real life." IOW, threads such as this one are preaching to the choir. In 2015 there were 1.5 million violent crimes in the U.S. That's over 3400 per day. Are some worthy of note to LTC's? Sure, but a vast majority are just the usual crimes that have been happening in locales since time began, and provide no useful information to the LTC. If we posted all or most of them here, Charles would need a lot more server space. It would be a lot more useful, if you are trying to avoid high crime areas to simply Google the area for crime rate, rather than relying on a few posts per day/week on the forum. I don't want to engage in a spat with you, or demean your post in any way, but if you relied on posts here to determine where it is safe and where it is not, I imagine you would now avoid all construction sites. In the end, the members of the forum usually believe that no place is "safe" and that is why they carry. Again, im not trying to offend anyone, just rendering an opinion which members can always disagree with.Grundy1133 wrote:I respectfully disagree. There are people who have the mentality "Oh that stuff doesn't happen in real life" or "Well that will never happen to me" or "that only happens in the movies". I think if people actually knew how much crime went on it would change their views a bit... my girlfriend for example use to be like that. but we've been dating for 4 years now and she now no longer leaves her keys in her car when she goes somewhere. always locks the doors on her car. always sleeps with her henry repeater next to her bed. checks and double checks to make sure the doors are locked at night. she still does some things that irk me and seem reckless to me like she siad the other day an elderly couple had a flat tire on the highway so she stopped to help them. I would never do that. for all she knows there could be their son laying down in the back seat with a shotgun ready for an ambush. or how she will walk places sometimes. she says "oh its just 2 blocks away" yeah but all it takes for a BG is 20 feet to sneak up on you. I think its a good thing that people are reporting everyday crimes. not only doesnt it help people with "im immune" mentalities but it also keeps people like me who live in the middle of nowhere up to date on where a lot of the crime is happening. Like I wont be visiting houston anytime soon. or austin. those 2 places seem to have skyrocketing crime rates here lately.G26ster wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I don't get all the postings about robberies, murders, or assaults as somehow being something new or different. Regardless of country, state, city or town, or neighborhood, criminals and crazies have been perpetrating crime since time began. Sure, nothing wrong with reminders, but is there anyone on a LTC type forum unaware of the situation or the need for protection? As I said, maybe it's just me, but IMHO, these posts serve no useful purpose that I can see. Now if it is a case of something that would enable a LTC to "improve" their defense strategy or provide "useful" infomation, I'm all for it. But simply posting about a common violent crime, for the sake of just reporting it, is something I don't understand. But hey, I'm old and cranky, so forgive me if you disagree.
