Very Important Day In History

[Arcey]

Depends on where the surroundin' area is occupied by the heaviest percentage of  Section 8 residents.

Here, most of the shootin's are at K-Mart. Specifically the one 'cross the street from my dentist's office.

[Texas Lawdog]

I always made it on a Section 8, but they told I wasn't crazy enough yet.

[Ozark Tracker]

   just as we were getting ready to move from Muskogee, they were building a new Wal-Mart Super Center,  it was just down the street from the goverment subsidised housing,  looked like a bad location to me.  had a friend tell me it was an awful spot to shop, better leave yer doors unlocked,  they'll knock out a window to grab anything if the doors are locked. 

The bad Wal-Mart around here is down at Russellville, they have a Mexican shoot out about every week, 

[Leo Tanner]

Got no Walmart around here.  The town is really tryin ta stay small.  We have the Red K but it's a small one.  Have a tiny JC Pennys that has had it's jewelry counter burglerized after hours twice in the last few years, but no one hurt.  Dang, now I think on it, our Sears is even smaller an only sells appliances an tools.
     I just realized I live in Mayberry!

Gonna go see Floyd an get a haircut.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

Good Luck with that Leo.

[Delmonico]

Hmm, we got two of them, worst thing I heard about there is the cashier stealing gift cards.

[Texas Lawdog]

There's all kinds of little creatures that come out after dark to prey on unsuspecting folks.  They sleep during the day because they don't have jobs. They rob and steal from honest people to support their habits.

[Trinity]

Makes me want to go get a habit so that I'll have an excuse.  I never got into drugs because I couldn't afford it.  Don't drink "too" much because I can't afford it.  Don't drive a fancy car because... yep, can't afford it.  Now when I see folks on govt. assistance drunk, high and driving hummers and caddies, it makes me sick.  Not jealous, just plain sick.

[Ozark Tracker]

good thing I finished reading that post,  I thought ya was gonna get ya a Nun's Habit and then when them bad guys jumped ya ,  you could spring back on em, 

[Texas Lawdog]

For a long time I didn't think anything about getting up at night and going to the store, most of the time, unarmed.  Not anymore. I get my stuff done during the day and when the sun goes down, I don't get out. I've spent my entire adult life dealing with these low- lifes. I've worked hard for what I have and I'll be damned if I am gonna let some A$$ Hole take it from me without a fight.

[Trinity]

good thing I finished reading that post,  I thought ya was gonna get ya a Nun's Habit and then when them bad guys jumped ya ,  you could spring back on em, 

Yer right TL.  With things goin' the way they are, I might just have to go get my CCW.

[litl rooster]

when I walk the dog, I "walk the dog"

[Texas Lawdog]

Col. Sam Colt made us all equal.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

People ask me if I have my two Great Danes for protection and then look funny at me when I tell them no, that their job is to give me time to pull my gun.

I used to feel pretty safe going out to certain areas unarmed nowadays I won't even go out in the yard after dark without carrying.

Last night there were two guys shot less than half a block from my office.  Arcey's former coworkers are looking into it.  The interesting thing was that there was a person beat up about 15 minutes before the shootings not more thatn 2 blocks from where the shootings occurred.

[Arcey]

Tom, that crap happened almost beside my former office. The club they built one up on Granby couldn't make it work 'n the element that's in there now attracts that kindah recreational activity.

Until the city addresses those issues without the fear of hurtin' the feelin's of a certain segment of the population it's gonna continue. They have been told that for years.

Joe Leafe told the truth about the murders there, where they were 'n what they were over. He's gone. It's way past time for others to take the same chance 'n tell it like it is.

I don't go anywhere unarmed either.

[Texas Lawdog]

All of us in LE have made enemies along the way. I would still care a pistol even if I wasn't authorized. "I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6."

[Arcey]

Under the "Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act" (HR-218) qualified active and retired law enforcement officers are permitted to carry concealed handguns nationwide. The law amends the Gun Control Act (18 U.S.C. Chapter 44) to exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from state and local laws prohibiting the carry of concealed firearms.

Check into it, Tex.

[Ozark Tracker]

ya know that's one of the worst part of life now,  you almost feel like you have to gotta protect yourself, nobody else is going to.  We carry all the time here in Arkanasas and around here is a pretty safe feeling place.  back when we lived in Oklahoma,  they didn't have a conceled carry license, but I always carried anytime I wanted to, nobody much cared,

when I was a Bail bonds man I carried ever where I went. all the LE knew we carried and it was Ok with them at the time.  Never had to pull it but twice and only one of them was down right serious,  I had done cleared it in my mind that he was a dead man, but he jumped down on the ground and I'd a had to shoot him in the back,   after he got out of jail, he doused his wife with gasoline and set her on fire,  He got life, guess he's still there.

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, I hope he's at Big Mac.

[Ozark Tracker]

last I heard of him that's where he was,

story was his gang (YOBS)  had killed his sister and cut her head off a couple of years before, I knew that part was the turth,  he was a crack  head and told me that they worshiped vegatables  and they needed a sacrifice, I mean the stuff he was telling me, Steven King coulnd't even make up.  now he was telling me all this first hand just prior to thinking about shooting him,  we were standing beside my pickup and he went for his straight razor and I went for my gun, he saw me pulling my 45 and he hit the ground.
that guy was absolutley nuts.