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Originally Posted by Flieger
I also fail to see why it is necessary to have a firearm 24/7. I've gone 23 years without one and I feel fine. Haven't been mugged. No paranoia. If you really do live in a nice neighborhood I don't see why.
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maybe because yer just lucky. if your neighborhood/town has a police bulletin email, subscribe to it.
i grew up on south side of chicago in hyde park. it's a university neighborhood. but it's surrounding on 3 sides by ghetto. just because i live on "this" side of the street doesn't mean ghetto on the "other" side of the street doesn't affect us. we used to hear regularly of people getting mugged on the street during daylight and twilight hours. we knew not to cross 59th street, 47th street, cottage grove or else we'd be on the "other side". a family friend got mugged inside his own apt building in broad daylight. the guy walked in the door behind him, beat him unconcious and stole his wallet with $20.
if u just look at the weekly chicago crimes that DON'T happen in the ghetto, you know you're not on a happy little island. last year was subway muggings and street purse snatchers. just this week there's an alert for a series of violent muggings on the lakeside jogging/biking trail.
yea it's safer nowadays than back in the 90's, but it's not all hunky dory. not paranoid, but just aware.