Posted on 04/22/2014 12:17:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I live outside of Tampa. I did’t feel safe because of the pitbulls, wild hogs, and panthers that live in the area.
So I carry, now I feel safe.
I remember a time when people not only left their doors unlocked, but wide open in the summer. And I live close to a city.
Today, only the foolish leave doors unlocked. Well..unless they have an arsenal.
BTW, it is a great city. Reminds me of old town Denver — old, beautiful, tree lined streets. I stayed in Skokie.
Just don't travel too far south on Milwaukee Ave. Lol. I got a little lost and ended up the bridge that crosses the river. I remember the burned out buildings. Like a war zone. Fortunately, I wasn't driving a metallic pea family truckster.
Nor is there any mention of what is considered "violent crime"...........
Nah, I don't give any credibility to these types of polls since they can be skewed in any way they want........
While I live just north of Detroit, I wouldn't drive thru any Det. neighborhoods at night unless I absolutely had to.
For what it's worth, I worked in a manufacturing plant on Detroit's east side for almost 35 years and during that time, over a dozen employees I personally knew were either shot or lost to murders.....
The plant closed at the end of 2006 and since that time, the crime on that side of the city has gotten dramatically worse......
Here's another factoid that many people aren't aware of. There is not one single large shopping mall within the city limits of Detroit.......all the malls on the east side are located in the surrounding suburbs such as Roseville and Sterling Heights.
Wow. Of course. To cool the house.
My grandparents lived in a city suburb and after years of nagging from my aunts, they finally locked the doors. Never a problem, though.
None of us have an 'arsenal'.
Then again, we're not up in liberal moon-bat northeastern corridor, either.
/johnny
The political class for their reasons want there to be a lot more cities where basically white middle class Americans feel unsafe for good reasons. The leadership class is determined to inexorably change the racial composition of the US through unlimited immigration through acts of love by those from one region after another whose culture and mores are incompatible with the US middle class. When Mexico exhausts its supply of border crossrs it will be the turn of Brazil and after Brazil , sub-Saharan Africa. Every effort to sabotage any real assimilation will be made under the banner of ‘oppose white racism’. When the racial composition is tilted far enough to the dark side then the political class can roll out their next program. The Mahdi slipped up with the ‘civil force as powerful as the armed forces’ quote. That will only be rolled out when their are enough unassimilated, marginal, dark skinned males to fill up the rank and file of the ‘Federal Community Police’ and the ‘Community Police Auxiliaries’. The one for those who have no major criminal records the other for ‘Minority youts’ from the equivalent of the Latin Lords or the Crips and Treys. Then the ‘community organizers’ and ‘community police’ can be sent to visit mostly white suburbs to conduct the ‘Safe Streets Initiative’ and visit folks at random to make sure no ‘child porn’ is on your computer or no ‘unauthorized weapons’ are left around ‘where children might find them’. Of course there will be a lot of misunderstanding and some mean, racists, white men will get beaten or shot and houses will be ransacked because ‘children are endangered’. This is not some far fetched birchite fantasy. The political class want white middle class Americans terrorized into silence and over a number of generations they want the European population base to be so diluted through discouraging tradition family creation and encouraging as much inter racial ‘social contact’ as possible . Why? White middle class Americans are to self reliant and have obstructive cultural attitudes towards an omnipotent state which is the goal of the political class. The political class can watch the progress of their schemes from their gated enclaves.
The west side too. But seriously, large parts of Chicago are actually quite safe. I think of the 360 or so murders from last year, only 30 had white victims
Yakima, Wash has aprox. 250,000 people so the 350/100K equals about 875 violent crimes in 2012.
And somehow the home invasions and gang banging there is always making the national news.
I was born there, visit occasionally, and wouldn’t thing of being unarmed there.
Years ago, Dad’s neighbor came home and interupted a couple guys carrying part of his firearm collection out of the house. The neighbor drew the part of the collection, not stored in the house, and shot and killed one of the perps.
Dad was always well prepared.
Memphis is trying harder to get to number one. Right now the safest one can be there is on the I-40-I-55 Loop and heading away in all directions.
“I was on Beale Street a few years ago and I didn’t feel safe. Not at all.”
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I was born in Memphis, 1944, when the black population was less then 40%. Up into the 60s, Memphis was rated the nations quietest and cleanest city. It also had the nations number one fire department, with the National Firefighters convention held there each year.
Beale St. was originally a black only street downtown, and frequented only in daytime by whites going to the numerous army surplus stores. It is where we went to buy summer camping supplies.
Beale converted into a tourist area, with numerous nightclubs in the 90s.
Since I left for the last time in 2000, the city has declined, with the black population growing to 60%, and taking over the government. I think the murder rate is now the highest in the US.
Memphis has “Gone With the Wind”.
Memphis FReepers, please correct any mistakes that I made in this post.
Memphis has “Gone With the Wind”.
This sounds like Mobile a city trending the same way.
We had a big mulberry tree in the yard and when it got really hot Grandma had a double bed she would put under the tree and I would sleep out there with her. Now the town I grew up in is nothing but illegals and you better be outta there before dark.
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