I read your post and I guess I realy can't argue with your logic.
I don't live there.
Quite honstly, nobody can argue with it unless they are:
1)Sheltered/far removed from it (Rich actors, musicians, politicians for example...you know, many of the ones screeming for higher taxes, gun control, etc)
2)In denial (see above examples)
3)Clueless (Once again, see above)
A good friend of mine in Atlanta tells me when he bought his home in the 70s it was a nice quite place.
Still a nice place but he actulay can't sleep without a handgun under his pillow because he can hear the gun shots now at night.
I hear gunshots at night all the time. Most of the time it's the neighbor in the middle of the night shooting at predators that come after his chickens, Sometimes the people from another country 2 houses down that have multiple families occupying the house, as well as a half dozen motor homes in the backyard with some trashy looking plywood fence surrounding it in hopes that nobody notices the shanty town out back (I live in a country neighborhood where we all have 3/4 to 1.5 acre lots)
Quite often some distant gunshots from the river that runs past my neighborhood
Maybe you realy do live someplace so violent and dangerous now that is your only option.
No, not really. We do have pockets of areas that you don't want to go through whether day or night, but if you work for a living you don't ever have to go there unless you choose to.
My business is located in an industrial park area in not the greatest neighborhood but certainly not the worst... Definately a lot of tweekers around there though.
I myself worry about home invasions around here more than anything, and we have rashes of them here and there. Being in business I feel like more of a target even though I actually make half of what I did working for someone else doing the same job due to the raping uncle sam gives me for being self employed.
Voting is still importand.
No doubt. I still do it, but with electoral votes and all, there is really only a half dozen or so states that decide the outcome. California is an entitlement society and you really have to live here in the sub-middle class and personally know people who work the system to really see it.
But if you say the have nots out number the haves and are voting in their own interest that is a symptom of a much deaper problem that needs to be resolved.
If its that bad.
Yes it is that bad and there are generations of families on the welfare and SSI doles (and I mean SSI "crazy" pay, not Social security for 65+ - people here actually get rewarded for being a drug addict and unable to hold down a job)
I have a Sherrif customer that told me of having to handcuff an 11 year old boy because he attacked him when he respinded to a call at the home. He told me that (and keep in mind that he doesn't often get called to good homes) MOST homes he goes to are unfit for kids. How can you expect things to change when you have kids being raised by lowlifes that work the system and sell drugs/steal for a living. How are the kids going to turn out?
And the people that can least afford and are ill equipped to raise children are the ones having the most children. We have a 4 year old here and she's a handful. How can anybody have a half dozen kids and spend time with and work with them to teach them manners, morals, etc. - let alone provide an education, etc to them?
Sorry, but there's no changing it. It's only going to get worse. Many responsible couples that my wife and I know chose not to have kids. So... if every person that sucks on society has 3 kids (on average), then they just tripled the doles in a few short years at the same time that responsible people AREN'T bringing new responsible people into the world.
Maybe you realy do need to pack heat, have or have not....
I went 42 years without packing, but have felt much safer the last couple years now since the Sherriff decided to start making permits easier to get in our county.
See CA is broke and the Sherriff was forced to lay off a LOT of deputies, and at the same time some brainiac politicians decided that the best way to control prison overcrowding is to release thousands of felons on the streets WAY ahead of time, so we have a huge spike in crime the last couple years due to that. The most recent incident was a couple weeks ago when a 60 something old man had to shoot a punk fresh out of early release due to attacking him in his garage.
These guys are released onto the streets with no supervision, no parole, no nothing. The only way they go back in is WHEN they commit another crime.
time to watch some Amrican news
Be careful with that. Most news outlets are jaded and lean from moderately left to extreme left.