Sounds like Capitol Hill. As I understand it, the argument is usually that if they take the gun away from you you're in much worse shape because you've escalated the situation. I used to drive a cab out of Prince George's county, and I was driving people like that around. Most of those kids selling drugs don't see much hope for the future otherwise, but they only shoot each other. It's stray bullets, robbers and burglars that are the real danger imho.
On the other hand I lived in Maryland when I was in DC, and though some of those neighborhoods were pretty bad and even drug markets, nobody was getting *shot* outside my door. I did have to testify in two completely different murder trials though. One of them was for a friend of mine who shot a ex-roommate who absolutely refused to be an ex and kept coming back to the house and beating up an old man who lived there. My friend did seven years out of twenty for killing him. Was it a good idea to have that gun? I have to say that this went on for several months, the police were called many times and they were totally inept. But my advice at the time was look, this guy is an asshole. Your landlord is an asshole. Those two guys deserve each other. This house is not worth the drama. ::sigh:: Oh and a co-worker of mine was shot at his second job. He died. This was in *Bethesda* You tell me. Would you have a gun? Dana >I don't know about the rest of you, but I actually lived in DC, on Capitol >Hill, in a neighborhood where I had a trained Rottweiler for house >protection and where my wife had someone pull a gun on her on the street. >Where my downstairs tenant had some freak break into her apartment. Where my >next-door neighbor was a convicted bank robber, and the guy two door down on >the other side was a multiple-offender who was in and out of prison. Where >the kids across the street dealt drugs on the next block over. Where someone >was shot in his apartment a block away from my house a week after we moved >in. Where there was an open-air drug market on C St six blocks away, the >same block where some fool would turn up dead in his car once a month with >ten bullets in his body. And that is just slice of what my neighborhood was >like. > >So you ask me, if I had had the right to own a gun when I lived in DC, would >I? What do you think? > >On 3/14/07, Heald, Timothy J wrote: >> >> So anyone hear about the federal courts decision to overturn DCs gun >> ban. If it DC loses it's appeal in a year or so the people of DC will >> be again to own guns in their homes. That's as far as the court went so >> far. > > > >-- >--------------- >Robert Munn >www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
