Tim says:

Regarding the gun argument…I lived in Calif. in a nice middle class neigborhood in the mountains. Twice in my life, I have been told by law enforcement officials that I would have to protect my familiy myself because we lived too far from a police station for them to react quickly. In one case we were threatened by the perpetrator of an arson (homeowner torched his house for insurance after earthquake), and the other case we had been burglarized repeatedly (while we were away).

When my mother was a small girl in the 1920s, the Cosanostra (mafia)targeted the family. The FBI armed my grandfather (a banker) and escorted my mother and her sister to & from school. The mob firebombed the bank (before FDIC), everyone lost their deposits, and the family nearly went bankrupt. However, nobody in my family was killed and some mob guys were arrested. I wonder if I would have been born if my grandfather (and FBI) couldn’t have protected the family.

For all you fools who think that guns should be banned, think again. “Civility” is a very thin veneer atop man’s age-old behavior of physical domination of others for power, and it is very difficult for law enforcement to guarantee everyone’s safety all the time.

Peace.

Shane says:

I live in Texas and about 2 hours from Mexico. With that said almost every one I know has more then one gun and many of them including me have a few semi auto rifles and handguns, I am a law-abiding citizen and never take the guns out unless I need them. Like the occasional Snake or coyote that comes around but if some one tries to come trough my door or any of my neighbors, I’m really sure they will meet a wall of copper and lead. I work with a guy that has cams set up in his house that he watches from work and my neighbor has them too, I’m about to get some one in the near future my self.
It not paranoia but when I work an hour away and my wife and kid are home alone and they are 15min from town I’d like to keep any eye on things.

Especially with the rise in Dug gang increasing in the area, we are just off a major drug route into Texas from Mexico and a couple of neighboring towns have been overrun and own city official. They keep the police from patrolling the high crime area unless some thing happens there like a shooting. A lot of you don’t understand it’s not just an invasion down here its all out war and takeover and the police and Boarder patrol have their hands tied by the feds and some local government officials. For the most part they can only react to incidents not help prevent them.

My home is protected by K9\dogs, AK47, SKS, Ruger, and Mossberger with full-metal-jackets..