Presidential election, 2016

[Classic-Xer]

(12-06-2016, 06:13 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 04:22 PM)Odin Wrote:

(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: 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.

The only truely high-crimes areas we have here in Minnesota are the "ghetto" parts of north Minneapolis. I suspect Classic is confusing "high crime areas" with "places with black people".

You come on down to the cities and I'll take you through the "ghetto" parts in the Twin Cities. I'll take you through the borderline areas as well. When we are done with them, I'll take you through the more troublesome spots located in the suburban areas. You'll most likely notice that the majority of the people in those area aren't white. You may even notice as we travel through the areas that they're not all blacks either. I was born in a borderline area. It wasn't a borderline area back then but it's one now. North Minneapolis is the ghetto part that country folks mostly see and hear about on the TV news or read and learn bad things about in the newspaper. Back in the day, we heard the most about the violence in South Minneapolis and the Selby/Dale area in St. Paul.