I now understand the order to stay in your homes

Mott the Hoople said:
I find the gun control issue a very interesting one. I've lived half my life in rural environment and the other have in an urban one and the disconnect I see on both sides is interesting.

Many city people don't understand the independence of rural life. If you have an emergency you can't count on the police, fire dept or EMT's to be there in a couple of minutes. It may be a half hour. Much of what goes on in life in a rural environment you do yourself or it doesn't get done and that which even appears threatening to you independence isn't well appreciated.

On the other hand, you don't have well armed gang roaming the streets, doing drive buy shootings or organized criminals, drug dealers, etc infesting your neighborhoods. Whens the last time a terrorist attack occurred in Hoxie, Arkansas or Eldridge, IA? When's the last time you had a drive by shooting or a drug war in Wabash, IN or Clanton, AL? Rural folks are pretty disconnected from these facts of urban life.

It's an interesting disconnect and neither side seems willing to see the others point of view.
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Very well said.... I've always been part of a rural community and I know what you mean.

Edit: even though I live in a part of the country where locking your doors at night is optional, all you have to do is watch some documentaries on gangs and urban gun violence to know that they aren't making that shit up.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
It's not what you're thinking. They can order you indoors and they can arrest you if you come out and interfere with their operation. Other than that it's really a request to stay inside.
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There was an interview with some guy who was at home and a bullet came through his window. The stray bullet ended up in the back of the chair instead of in him only because he had got up a moment before!!
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
There was an interview with some guy who was at home and a bullet came through his window. The stray bullet ended up in the back of the chair instead of in him only because he had got up a moment before!!
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So you're saying he would have been safer milling about outside? How many bullets missed his house?
 
Steelplate said:
So you're saying he would have been safer milling about outside? How many bullets missed his house?
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No I am saying that the situation resembled a fucking war zone rather than a search for one man. There was an American from Boston on the BBC last night saying that he could see how bad this must look to the rest of the world. He also added that the police should be aware at all times where the bullets will end up if they do not hit the intended target.
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
No I am saying that the situation resembled a fucking war zone rather than a search for one man. There was an American from Boston on the BBC last night saying that he could see how bad this must look to the rest of the world.
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I guess GB ponders how their behavior will look to the rest of the world; before they respond to situations. :good4you:
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Out where you live, maybe not but here in the city where I live where the Crips & Bloods & M3 & The Satans & The Outlaws are better armed then law enforcement, yea....this will help make it more difficult for them to obtain weapons while doing nothing to abridge my 2nd ammendment rights.
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believing that requiring background checks on all sales will keep gangbangers from getting guns is one definition of insane.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
No I am saying that the situation resembled a fucking war zone rather than a search for one man. There was an American from Boston on the BBC last night saying that he could see how bad this must look to the rest of the world. He also added that the police should be aware at all times where the bullets will end up if they do not hit the intended target.
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cops don't need to worry about where their bullets end up because they are the trained experts who also get immunity from such things because it's part of their job.
 
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