MoonsOfJupiter said:
@nomina-nuniyan:cute poem
@Lord I.: Even though I used to be against guns, I thought about getting a concealed weapons permit, even if it's just for a knife or something. I feel like an easy target, being a small female and all that. One crime that scares the shit out of me happened about two years ago. In a nearby town, two junkies broke into this house and killed this teenage boy. I guess they knew there was money in the house, but they didn't think anyone was home. I also hear gunshots on my street sometimes.
I surely wouldn't get a gun over someone near there getting killed. If you live in the city people are getting shot all the time. Like LORD and you, I'm from the east coast, inner city Baltimore and I've been arm robbed quite a few times. Lived on drug blocks. seen people shot, watched people die on the street.
this is more when you need to think about getting a gun, though I couldn't say it would have helped me at any time. We'd had our house broken into a couple of times in this one neighborhood and one of the times, my boyfriend Randy caught the guy downstairs, and Randy chased the dude out. we didn't have a gun then , but anything could have happened then. But you know each time I was robbed, if I'd had a weapon on me, I'd be dead just for having it on me. Really , on the street are you gonna pull your weapon on someone whos got a gun eight inches from your forehead? If you're street smart and you get nailed, there's probably nothing you could've done to see it coming and prevent it.
So but ,yeah, if you have one you better be ready to use it.
It would behoove you to become more street smart than getting a weapon, this will solve half your problems and fears, avoid many situations by just reading people, knowing the when and where of people, who in other places would be fine. There's a look and a vibe and if you know and it's coming at you, you'll see it coming. For me it's just years of honed instint that's as natural to me a breathing, I don't even get anxious over it anymore. The house thing might be worth thinking about if you really did have a lot of break-ins where you live. Especially if there's a high rate of shootings involved.
I used to be for gun control but the older I get, I don't know why. Too many people have weapons, I don't see what the point is really to try to control something that can't be. there have been times when we've been on the road where I really wished we'd had one. isolation on the road is a real safety problem. Probably won't go out on the road again without a weapon.
I've handled and shot guns before at a range. One of the people Randy and I moved around with owned a hand gun so we had a period of time where we had one in the house and Randy carried it sometimes. But it's a mental weight having it around. Lord would disagree but then I didn't grow up with them either so....that's a big difference. Something to think about.
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Phoenix has just a small fraction of the crime Baltimore had with six times the population but there are senseless murders here, crazy stuff, not like back home where there was a reason for every crime, you know, gain, need , revenge, but here, people DO do lots of house break-ins and killings with no clear intent, often not even clear robberies. That's a little weird for us because being wise to it here is harder when people are just fucking nuts. Like at home it was an economy of crime, it made sense. Here, people are fucking crazy and do these things for unknown reasons. Also, lots of domestic murder here, women, wives, girlfriends, kids. Not too much of that back home.
