They need that. Even if they don't wear them.
Posted on 08/21/2016 7:46:58 AM PDT by farming pharmer
People don't realize how much territory you can cover in a car with two tanks of gas.
A far more reasonable number would be a half tank of gas.
That quite true !
When folks in the inner-city get used to having things given to them , they have no appreciation of the work / value of thise items. they will be met with resitance and HOME OWNERS WILL FIGHT.
Arson is one of those crimes that justifies extreme physical reistance, .. even deadly physical force !
A hat tip to TADSLOS !
If the rioters attack suburbia they will be met with guns.
That is an amazingly good idea. It’s probably no help for whoever lives near to the fire hall, but almost everyone else in a rural county would benefit from it.
Short version:
In Rwanda, the Tutsis and Hutus hated each other. One day, radio stations announced it was time for Hutus to kill Tutsis. Within days, a million were dead, mostly hacked to death with machetes.
Downtown Houston and Austin- sure. Have at it. Burn down your own sh*t and kill your own kind. Texas "suburbia"? Go ahead, make our day. Any feral attempting to burn sh*t down in the outlying bedroom communities of either city will pay a dear price. Gun shows and range time are a major form of serious entertainment out here in Texas urban fringe land. We generally don't wait on cops to protect us. Cops are considered after the fact note takers here.
Yes, I live five miles from a small country town in Maryland where a campus of the Maryland University system is located. Just in the last three years we have seen an exponential growth of Sec. 8 people moving into the area and a steadily rising rate of criminal activity. The welfare system enables these people to move, or to be moved, to virtually anywhere in the country. So now you see them, bare asses hanging out, schlepping around the malls and shopping centers, WAITING AND WATCHING - FOR WHAT? one wonders. I anticipate that these people will soon be followed by masses of Muslims into areas such as this, with no jobs, on welfare, just WAITING AND WATCHING. Meanwhile longtime residents with deep roots here are also waiting and watching - and most of them who I know are also locked and loaded.
It doesn't matter if you are next to the hall if all the truck are across the county.
I never say "never" but although there may be some risk to close-in suburbs and gentrified neighborhoods (mostly the latter, and they're mostly populated by liberals, anyway) I don't see much risk to Classic Suburbia.
We live about 10 minutes by car away from what passes for "the ghetto" locally but it's about a 90 minute walk across multiple highways and bridges. Local cops hang out near the township line and they pounce on minor motor vehicle violations.
Consistent with Giuliani's "broken window" theory, individuals who are casual about other people's property rights also tend to be casual about traffic laws and motor vehicle safety laws. What will happen is pretty well known and makes the ne'er–do–wells less likely to leave the safety of their own neighborhoods.
The problem with the cabin in the hills is that the doctor, the dentist, the car dealer, Costco and Home Depot are also all about 10 minutes away from "the ghetto" and are the same long drive from that place in the hills except in reverse.
Even lots of liberals in texas have fire arms for self protection. Houston is loaded to the gills.
I am of course being just a little facetious. Though his hand waving, (was Officer Friendly Italian?) I was able to at least go in the correct direction and eventually found the Interstate.
“Of course he had a gun. This is Texas. Everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun!”
Thanks,I’m Boston born.
Maybe I should hire out as a translator.:-)
Did you know we pronounce “pecan” as pee-can? That usually causes some chuckles.
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You too were on the westside in March 68?
Doug Andrews is the “radical” who gave the big speech in Garfield Park. Were you there as I was? How well did you know him? I had worked with him closely on the Lucy Jean Lewis for Alderman campaign in ‘65 in the 28th ward. I actually lived 5 blocks outside the 28th but knew many friends and enemies in it. The first place I lived in Chicago was in the 28th.
My first job after coming back from Vietnam Christmas 67 was insurance inspector for the inner city. Home Insurance Co was one of the big P&C writers in Lawndale/Garfield Park. I went into every one of their risks on the Westside (mostly apartment building and storfronts with apartments above). I talked with probably 50% of the tenants in those buildings.
Only a few had I previously worked for in politics as many buildings were in the 24th, 27th, 29th wards. But I had many friends and acquaintances in those wards also, like YMCA street worker Danny Davis (now Cogressman).
Ya, I knew pee-can also. I did a few years as an instructor at Devens. I picked up a lot of the Mass accent, but the hard core Boston never sunk in. Probably because I went there only a few times, just to get cooking supplies in China Town. Mostly I hung around Leominster when I wasn’t at work.
I was just a kid. My father was a newspaperman. Took me for a little drive through the West Side on the night of April 4, 1968. Harrowing.
Two full tanks would only get me 300 miles tops.
Course the nearest big city from me is 85 miles away on a 2 lane mountain highway (Big City is about 3800 people).
This last year about 300 yards of that highway wound up down the mountain in the river bottom.
I am pretty isolated and well stocked.
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