Yes. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:22 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Gun Control, run from this thread now :) > > 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 > >
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