[Q-ManRN]

My first post maybe found at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039507/posts.

More posts to follow!

[mylife]

Good post.
I too was raised in a wonderful place I thought was without guns.
Now those men are gone and the Ghetto is springing up.

[Q-ManRN]

Please see Part II in my series of posts entitled “Confessions of an Ex-Liberal Gun Owner”.

[M Kehoe]

Hi guy.

...they missed an important piece of evidence in their search of the property- a dead body!

I like this already. Are you writing a novel?

Hey, I'll ping your dad to check this story out ya know?

;^)

5.56mm

[Westbrook]

I grew up just outside of Boston.

The Mafia was better at keeping the peace than the police were. The Mafia didn’t like bad stuff to go down in their neighborhoods. People who did bad things in a mobster’s neighborhood would often disappear.

Those days are gone. It’s every man for himself, now.

[PapaBear3625]

The police were urgently summoned via 9-1-1, but the unthinkable happened- the police did not appear for nearly 40 minutes. And then only one police officer showed up initially.

Over the years the motto of the police force has changed from "To Protect and to Serve" to "Officer Safety Comes First".

Big-city police generally will NOT come to the scene of a gun battle until the shooting is all over, and the participants have departed. They will come to take pictures and draw chalk marks. The only exception is if one of their own is down.

[Marcella]

We didn't lock our front door during the daytime until the early 1970s. We lived in a nice area and one day in the daytime, a man went in a doctor's house and beat up the doctor and the bad guy was looking for drugs.

We started locking the door in the daytime from then on. My husband had several firearms but they were for sport - we didn't think of them as self defense and those weapons were more suited for a man.

In 1989, I bought a weapon for me. In 2011/2012, I bought more firearms for me and I bought more ammo..

Looking at that progression over time, what will the next progression be? In earlier years, I would have never thought I might actually need what I have now. How bad is it going to get?

[Red in Blue PA]

911 call(no gun)=48 minutes= dead

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/16/grace.coldcase.zimmerman/

911 call(with gun)=90 minutes= alive

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Slow-Response-By-Dallas-Police-Angers-Robbery-Victim-206317351.html

[FreedomPoster]

Let’s make your first post a link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039507/posts

URLs auto-link in most posts, as long as there is no HTML. This does not work in the original post, for some reason. Pro tip on FR workings.

[VRW Conspirator]

bfl

[Tallguy]

Ultimately individual police officers would prefer to go home at the end of their shifts. People should keep that in mind.

I mean no disrespect to any LEO’s who might be on this thread.

[SaraJohnson]

Good post! Thanks for sharing it.

[B4Ranch]

DO NOT put a period at the end of a URL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039507/posts

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Hey, Q! The police no longer protect, but react...most times, too late. That's why we have over a million conceal carry folks in this state. (Damn, a FReeper meetup could probably produce a small arsenal of CCW's!)

Thanks for your posts.