Thread: There are predators among us

You're right on that one Jimmy, anything can happen to anyone anywhere. I won't live or work in the District (inside Washington DC) because of their gun laws and also, the amount of criminals who illegally posses them. I live and work just across the Potomac in Virginia where the concealment of a firearm is legal. I carry a Glock 40 cal everyday because I can understand the limitation of Government, but I'll carry that Glock second amendment or not.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Don't kid yourself. If I were to say let's go over to Ed Gein's house for lady fingers you have to be a certain age and from Wisconsin to get the 'joke' and it ain't funny. There is the BTK killer of Wichita, Kansas. Another place where we can leave our doors open. Both of these guys were well thought of in their communities.

Ah but it is only our society becoming sicker, it wasn't like this years ago. But it was for the Clutter family if you read 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. Finally I resurrect this thread that I posted a year ago with poll. My doors stay locked, thank you, and I am always aware of my surroundings and who is within them.

Good point, Jimmy.

My wife grew up in North Minneapolis in the early 70's. She, as a young girl could and did walk 3-4 blocks from her house to the corner store by herself or with a young girlfriend or two; as did my mother in Northeast Minneapolis in the early 50's. For most including myself as a parent now, such freedom from fear is unthinkable.

Amen to our society becoming sicker. Start by ditching your TV, people! It's liberating as all get out.

Chris L

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Good point, Jimmy.

My wife grew up in North Minneapolis in the early 70's. She, as a young girl could and did walk 3-4 blocks from her house to the corner store by herself or with a young girlfriend or two; as did my mother in Northeast Minneapolis in the early 50's. For most including myself as a parent now, such freedom from fear is unthinkable.

Amen to our society becoming sicker. Start by ditching your TV, people! It's liberating as all get out.

Chris L

When I was a kid we didn't lock our doors and there was no worry about me going anywhere alone. Just look at Halloween and 'trick or treat'. When I was a kid they didn't put needles or razor blades in candy and apples. By the seventies I had to go with my step daughter while she went from house to house and then throw away whatever she was given. I had bought candy to replace what she had gotten but it sure was different than twenty years previous.

Another thing is hitch hiking. As a teenager I left home at 15 and I hitchhiked all over the country. Woody Guthrie called it the road of the sunburned thumb and I took it. Rode freight trains too. People would pick you up back in those days and although even then in the sixties it was a dangerous practice for either party most of the time there were no problems. By the seventies it was rare to see anyone hitchhiking. By then I was done with my vagabonding and had become a union ironworker with my own car. If I saw a hitchhiker I wouldn't pick them up but you rarely saw one. I bet I haven't seen a hitchhiker in over thirty years.

That is an unfortunate incident. My heart goes out to the families of the victims.

If you haven't read Lt Col Dave Grossman's piece on Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs... you should.
On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman

Be alert.

I don't know how many of us delivered newspapers, but at age 11, I used to get up at 4:00 am before school started and then on the weekends to deliver 150 papers. Age freakin 11!!! In the Detroit area! This was from '72 to '77.

I can't imagine in my wildest dreams letting my kids or any parent letting their kids do that now. I think someone would call the Dept. of Social Services on you.

For all of the utlra-cool, time saving, entertaining crap we built ourselves, we lost our souls somewhere along the way.

Many people live in fear and seem to enjoy it.

I guess the mind spends a lot of fantasy time imagining how you'll give it to the bad guy. Which is one way to enjoy your fearfulness.

I got my first tattoo in Fayetteville NC many years ago. The artist & shop owner carried a 1911 in on his belt in an open top holster becuse of the dangerous nature of that cash business. Since then, I've always assumed that all tattoo artists walk around strapped for that very reason. Maybe most folks will think the same and not trifle with you, Jimmy.

Stay safe, sir.

Larry

Originally Posted by kevint

Many people live in fear and seem to enjoy it.

I guess the mind spends a lot of fantasy time imagining how you'll give it to the bad guy. Which is one way to enjoy your fearfulness.

Just because I am paranoid doesn't mean they are not really after me.

Originally Posted by LarryP

I got my first tattoo in Fayetteville NC many years ago. The artist & shop owner carried a 1911 in on his belt in an open top holster becuse of the dangerous nature of that cash business. Since then, I've always assumed that all tattoo artists walk around strapped for that very reason. Maybe most folks will think the same and not trifle with you, Jimmy.

Stay safe, sir.

Larry

Larry, I carry mine concealed. My father taught me, when I was a kid, that if you were going to cut somebody never let them know you had a knife until they were cut.

That's a very smart lesson you got as a kid. Sorry to hear you have to use it daily. Sad story about those boys in that circle K. Stay safe man.