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Dude, you're looking at Tacoma...which, if you knew anything at all about the region, does NOT represent the whole region.
Here's a list of America's 100 most dangerous cities from FBI data...and guess how many cities in Washington are there? ZERO.
And the crime rate for the entire state is pretty much determined by Puget Sound, since it's right here that the overwhelming majority of the people of Washington state live. If Puget Sound were as dangerous as you seem to believe, we'd be a lot worse off in the rankings. But we're not. This area is by and large one of the more peaceful areas to live in America.
Okay? You're full of it. You found ONE SITE and built your whole argument around it...and ignored solid stats from elsewhere, and especially didn't stop to wonder why it was that you were thinking Puget Sound was SO dangerous if Puget Sound comprised the great majority of the state's population...and the state has a relatively low crime rate. You didn't stop to think that maybe, just maybe it was a few neighborhoods that's skewing the stats of the whole, did you? Of course you didn't. All you could think of was clinging to what you believed...and could not muster the courage to look just a bit deeper into the hard-and-fast numbers.
true...i should have put a funny face next to the quote....because i was making comedy.Sharon Tate and the La Biancas lived in great neighborhoods and had no enemies..... remember the Manson murders?
Being prepared is not limited to living in a bad neighborhood. Evil may find anyone at anyplace or any time.
I don't give a **** what you buy. You are acting like a paranoid arrogant loon in this forum. I never claimed my home was "fortified" in the first place. I don't even have a fence around my yard. It's not like I live in some kind of fortress as you so hilariously imply. It's quite the opposite. The neighborhood kids play baseball, softball, football and soccer right in my side and back yards fer chrissakes. And they don't get chewed up by German Shepherd guard dogs. Or even yelled at when I'm grumpy. This is not exactly Fort Knox when it come to security. But no errant baseball is going to break my Lexan windows. I can guarantee that.I don't buy your line about how much your home is fortified.
Which is why people ought to live in them. What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
So much anger.I don't give a **** what you buy. You are acting like a paranoid arrogant loon in this forum. I never claimed my home was "fortified" in the first place. I don't even have a fence around my yard. It's not like I live in some kind of fortress as you so hilariously imply. It's quite the opposite. The neighborhood kids play baseball, softball, football and soccer right in my side and back yards fer chrissakes. And they don't get chewed up by German Shepherd guard dogs. Or even yelled at when I'm grumpy. This is not exactly Fort Knox when it come to security. But no errant baseball is going to break my Lexan windows. I can guarantee that.
You bragged that you could get in my home in a heartbeat. I'd just like to know exactly how you think you could do that. Are you going to tell us or not? You said you could kick in my windows. That's laughable. The bottom of the windowsills are about six feet above grade. And of course the grade slopes away from the house. Did you plan on bringing a ladder? Didn't think anyone would notice you carrying around a ladder in the middle of the night? Or do you have one hell of a great high kick there Mr. superman?
Tell us how you can break into my home in a heartbeat Mr. braggart.
Dodging the question again I see.So much anger.
Its getting like you just want to invite me over.Dodging the question again I see.
Well, are you going to tell us how you are going to break into my home "in a heartbeat" or are you going to STFU?
Or what?
No. I'd be afraid that you would hurt yourself trying to do a run and jump Bruce Lee high-kick right through one of my windows that are six feet off the ground. And may dent my siding with your head when you fail miserably :lol:Its getting like you just want to invite me over.
Glock tucked between the mattress and the runner edge of a platform bed with the handle up, no rounds chambered. The way I'm set up, and the way I practice is with no round in the chamber. I both have time to do so due to the physical obstructions that will slow down anyone, and practice to load a round quickly.I do but then again I have a loaded gun in every room in my house.:lol:
EDIT: I'm interested in how your politics relates to this decision too.
Glock tucked between the mattress and the runner edge of a platform bed with the handle up, no rounds chambered. The way I'm set up, and the way I practice is with no round in the chamber. I both have time to do so due to the physical obstructions that will slow down anyone, and practice to load a round quickly.
Not good enough.
Not good enough.
What's not good about it? A Glock is nearly impossible for a young child to chamber a round. Its safety latch is questionable. Best way to assure it isn't discharged accidentally is to not chamber a round. Additionally I then dry fire it so all I have to do is look at the gun, and I know it has no round in the chamber because the trigger remains depressed after a dry fire.
Worse case scenario you can get a mag in and slide charged with a man within inches of you?
Slow to reload, slow rate of fire, heavy, and way to expensive.
So much fear. So scared.
What if what if what if....
Not everybody wants/needs/chooses to live in constant fear.
Plenty of people live in very low crime-rate areas.
Simply not living in constant fear of the ultimate "what if" scenario (when those scenarios are few and far between in many places) is not "volunteering to be a victim".
It's simply living life with a different outlook. And that outlook isn't always pathetically ignorant, just in case that's the direction you care to take after reading this.
Lots of people live happy, safe, and violent-crime free lives, and die of old age in comfort and warm surroundings without ever having to need a gun for protection.
Google and read the studies - they're concerning guns owned by the person living in the house.
What's not good about it? A Glock is nearly impossible for a young child to chamber a round. Its safety latch is questionable. Best way to assure it isn't discharged accidentally is to not chamber a round. Additionally I then dry fire it so all I have to do is look at the gun, and I know it has no round in the chamber because the trigger remains depressed after a dry fire.
#2 I know, but it has a safety thingy, and I've never known quite what to call it. I guess because I don't see anything "safe" about it's extra trigger thingy. It seems more to avoid accidental discharge from things like being dropped than from children or carelessness.1) true
2) glocks have no SAFETY LATCH
3) IDF carried their browning HPs that way and I have seen IDF operatives shoot ALMOST as fast as I can from a holster (and I have my 1911 loaded). Almost as fast is probably good enough since the security of that carry makes sense in crowded urban areas where Jihadists might grab the gun from the IDF soldier and very few IDF soldiers are going to have to play quickdraw with an IPSC master level-or even Class C level shooter(i.e. people who have spent years practicing drawing and shooting quickly
really
Looks pretty fast to me. and while pythons are over priced, good revolvers can be had for 300-400 dollars
Buddy of mine had a 4" Python and I have a 686 SW and we used to always have contests against each other. He was killed in the line of duty and the gun ended up with another friend on the Palm Bay PD. Unfortunately he was killed with that weapon after being over powered by a couple of thugs.really
Looks pretty fast to me. and while pythons are over priced, good revolvers can be had for 300-400 dollars
The site I found gave the college and Puget Sound an F for a safe place to send your kid to school. Get over it, you live in a crime zone.
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