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Posted By: Mike

PC you say you live in an area with low crime. I live 25 miles north of Saint Paul, Minn. About the worst thing that happens around here, is someone might lose or misplace their tackle box. my son totaled his car on a deer last Fall. That was big news around here. I live in an area with virtually no crime. (Watch, now I will be robbed next week) So to carry a gun would be ludicrous. I can't visualize myself living in a high crime area even if for some reason my family moved. I used to travel out of state for the bank I was with. I went to a few places that scared the crap out of me. East Lansing Mich. I was in my hotel one evening, watching the news. The news went from 8 murders that day, to the weather then the sports. Nothing else. I must confess I still can recall each (Most) murder as described, and all involved guns. This is no lie, the inside of my hotel room had 5 chains. Yes I said 5 chains. I'm done working for today, so let me give everyone an average day in East Lansing. 1)A druggist had been robbed so many times, he went and bought a handgun. Sure enough, on camera, here come the bad guys again, he pulled out his gun and blew them away. They interviewd him, and asked him if he would do it again. he said hell Yes. 2) An old lady had been burglarized so many times, she bought a gun and had it on her bedside. She was startled by an intruder, he wrestled the gun away from her, and killed her. 3)A middle age guy was sitting watching television, the weather was very hot, so he had his front door open, so he could get a slight breeze. He also had been robbed so many times, he always sat with a shotgun. In walks a huge guy, a stranger, and he keeps coming at the homeowner. takes his shotgun and shoots and kills the guy. Shot him in the stomach as I recall. 4) A driver on an interstate pretended to be a cop, and he somehow got a young lady in an another car to pull over as she thought he was a cop. he asked her to get out of her car. he asked her to climb over a highway fence. I think she knew something was wrong now. And as she is climbing over the fence, he shoots her in the vagina with a shotgun. (Nice guy?) I guess she lived. 5)A man always had a handgun next to his bed. He was also starled out of his sleep, saw a shadow coming at him, he panicked and killed the person. It was his wife coming back to bed. She had gotten up for some reason, and was coming back to bed. Just awful
Thats enough, as I can't recall the others. This was an average day in East Lansing. Not too far from the college. There was one neighborhood, that I turned into, and for the first time in my life, I was scared to death. I backed up and turned around. I guess our country still has a ways to go. But I will remember that newscast for as long as I live.