Presidential election, 2016

[Classic-Xer]

(12-08-2016, 11:17 AM)David Horn Wrote:

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

(12-06-2016, 01:34 PM)David Horn Wrote: 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 missed this, but feel I should respond.

First, I live in a rural area that consists primarily of "locals", who are salt-of-the-earth types primarily, and tend to be lower income.  Since there is a recreational lake in the mix, the small number of "lakers" create a thin line of prosperity along the lake's shoreline.  The lake is large (22,000 acres) and the shoreline long (550 miles), so the laker neighborhoods tend to be spread-out.  The locals outnumber the mostly expat lakers by a wide margin.

So crime should happen here, but it doesn't.  I can leave my doors unlocked and never worry about theft.  Violent crime is unheard of ... except among those who know each other well.  There will always be crimes of passion, though I can't think of a single incidence of murder or manslaughter in the general vicinity in the 15 years we've lived here.

I live in a large metropolitan area. I live in a suburban community that has a population of about 40,000 people. An average sized community for the area. A mixture of home owners (predominately locals and newly committed transplants), renters (comprised of some locals but mostly a steady stream of transplants) and low income/subsidized housing (comprised of some locals but mostly a steady stream of transplants). We have had crime waves. We have had murders and gang members shooting at each other. We have had stores/people robbed at gun point. We have had rapes in parks. We have convicted sex offenders living in neighborhoods.