The common denominator in the quick drop off was the below pictured judicial contraption and a willingness to use it as needed:
That there are safe places to live is a complete fallacy.
A fool’s dream.
I live in a rural area of NC.
50 years or so ago, an area where people never locked their doors. No trespassing signs were rare as hen’s teeth.
Knock on a farmer’s door to ask if you could hunt on his land and you got invited in for “dinner”. Even though he had never seen you before.
I was born in this county but did not live in it until I was forty years old.
Since I returned in 1968 there have been five murders in the immediate neighborhood.
Two of them my second cousin and her husband directly across the road from the house in which I was born, a common thing 86 years ago.
One half mile from our house, on our road, lives the widow of a man killed in a robbery. He was the only person of the five who was engaged in questionable activity. He had a weed patch on his property. Not where the widow lives today, but still in our neighborhood.
One mile from our house, an old retired man, deaf from operating loud equipment, was murdered in is sleep.
Without boring you with more detail, the point is that if it can happen in a community of church going decent hard working people, it can happen anywhere.
If you think your neighborhood is one where it can not happen, you are dreaming.
So statistics like this are valuable if they keep you out of the worst places, but misleading if they lead you to think your area is safe. There is no safe place.
So be wary, ready and quick.
True. I grew up in a very rural area in Mississippi. We had crimes even there, back in the early 60’s. Shootings, robberies, drugs, etc. weren’t real common, but they still happened..................
The common denominator in the quick drop off was the below pictured judicial contraption and a willingness to use it as needed: