Presidential election, 2016

[Mikebert]

(12-06-2016, 02:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 01:34 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-05-2016, 11:28 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-05-2016, 11:04 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: If you think billionaiires or even major movie stars wander around without bodyguards, you're seriously detached from reality.

Sure they do, but their bodyguards are an small fraction of all gun owners.  These few are not the driving force behind Second Amendment activism.

FWIW, the entire 2nd Amendment hyper-vigilance is just so much overactive paranoia.  It lives in the RW echo chamber and feeds on itself.  At a time when violent crime is very low by historical standards, the rush to get guns and go about armed to the teeth is not only unjustified but more than a little pathological.

Now the very wealthy and famous are in a different universe; they are obvious targets.  But folks like us, we're just not that intriguing to the criminal class. I own no guns and have not felt the need to own one EVER!  Just for the record: no one has tried to rob me, enter my home without permission or even diss me in public.  How about you?

Where do you live? How many types of people live around you? How close do you live to higher crime areas? I have higher crime areas within a mile of me and major high crime areas within 15 miles of me. No one has tried to rob me yet but I know people who have been robbed or have had their homes robbed. I know people who have been roughed up and intimidated by groups of people in the area. I'm aware of armed robberies that have occurred not so far away from home.

I live less than half a mile from impoverished neighborhoods with high crime.  So what.  Its not my neighborhood.  I have lived here 25 years and in all that time I have had my tires slashed once and a window broken.  Both of those were in the nineties when it was a lot worse.  We are multimillionaires and could easily move.  But our "rent", prop taxes, gas and electric, internet, trash, water, phone and entertainment amounts to about 1000 a month.  It's cheap to live in town. So why would we leave? A decent place would run 250K, with taxes alone twice what we pay plus the foregone return 250K in assets would provide.  I have no problem with guns.  If I felt the need I would get one and learn to use it.  I don't.