Caymen,
Parts of Ohio sound really bad. I pitty those that have to live there.
I've moved out of states and neighborhoods that stopped being able to take care of their people. I'm quite able to protect and take care of myself, I just don't want to live in a town where I have to.
If I have to have a gun because the liklihood of getting robbed is high, or if I have to have bars on my windows, or if I can't take a walk around the block after 10pm (without having to pack), if I have to have a gate around my community to keep out the local criminal element, etc, etc, then I'm going to live elsewhere.
We live in a society that has rules. The rules of our current society is that it is to be reasonably civil, and that there are those in service to us, charged with protecting us and upholding the peace. I say let them do their jobs. If there are areas where they can't do their jobs, then I'll live somewhere else.
When there stops being "somewhere else", then I will take up a gun and stand my ground. I've been to a lot of this great country, and we aren't even CLOSE to that day coming.
It's a big country and a big world. Call it fleeing if you want, call it cowardess, call it not standing up to evil; but part of being "well off" is being "mobile".
We have some slum areas with higher crime rates near where I live. And people choose to live there...many to save money so they can "play" (have 4-wheelers, go on vacations several times a year, two sports cars, etc). For me, I choose not to live with the animals.
Also, Caymen, you say "Look in the mirror, you are the cause of many problems!" Well, thank you too buddy! I'm not the criminal. I'm not the one with the gun, robbing the store. I'm not the police that are doing nothing. Good people should be allowed to do whatever they want without feeling guilty.
Besides, if you believe in "survival of the fittest", then maybe, just maybe certain neighborhoods SHOULD NOT SURVIVE. Maybe if the good people would LEAVE SOONER, and take the tax base with them, then these sh!thole areas would spiral down to non-existance sooner and die out quicker. Maybe if we didn't have welfare, and maybe if we didn't throw money at such areas and neighborhoods than there wouldn't be blight and generations of people stuck in an area with no hope! Maybe the problem is that the good people, and the taxpayers are propping up these areas and their sh!theal people that live in them for too long!
At a certain point, if you keep animals caged with now ability to escape, and give them just enough scraps to barely survive then sooner or later they will start to turn on one another and eat each other.
Yes, I said ANIMALS! Many of the people in these areas are animals. I guess if I lived in a lions cage I would want a gun too!
TJR
