I'm doing my part....
;-)
Walking home at 2:00 AM, in any big city is going to be a problem.
Give the man a gun, maybe he can blow away these bastards, but I see he did work for the Rats so he would not know how to use it anyway.
For those of you that are interested in defending yourselves I would reccomend writing your Senators and demand that they support Senator George Allen's [R-VA]bill S.3275 and your Congressman to support H.R. 4547 introduced by Rep. Clifford Stearns [R-FL]. If passed they would standardize concealed carry laws and make it mandatory for all states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states.
If Senitt was a British citizen, then he'd have no business carrying a firearm here in the U.S. under any circumstances.
Years ago, while living in D. C., I had a conversation at my front door with four gentlemen. I happened to have a cocked 1911 in my hand. When they were going down the steps I head the largest one (who had been in front) say, “What were you poking me in the back for when the man had a great big gun in my face!”
Concealed Carry:
I will relate a story told to me by my mother, who was a police reporter on a Washington, D. C. newspaper during the early 1920's. I will not swear to its veracity.
Mother covered an attempted robbery of some firm in which a charwomen of ample proportions, particularly laterally, rose from her knees and threw a brick accurately and hard enough to brain the gunman.
During the interview my mother asked, “Where did you get the brick?”
The lady drew herself up with pride and announced, “Ah always carries a brick in mah bosom!”
Poor situational awareness. I think a lot of Europeans become crime victims because they don't understand there are places you can't safely be at certain times. Then the European media depicts the entire US as a gun-filled free-for-all, when it's really a case of poor decision-making.
I have some friends from England who lived over here for a couple of years and toward the end of their stay they thought nothing of going into the city for dinner late at night, in neighborhoods I would never go to. They quickly got used to the crime-free suburbs and seemed to think that the whole area was kind of a well-policed theme park. There are "no-go" areas even for the police in English cities like Manchester, but because California isn't visibly run-down they couldn't draw the parallel. DC, with its prominent government buildings and monuments, probably exerts the same effect on foreign visitors.
Tell that to "Republicans" Bloomberg, Pataki, and Giuliani.