Another fact is obvious from comparing different areas for crime. Ripp lives in a low crime area, I do not!!
I live in one of the worst 15 cities in the states for violent crime and the large city close to me is WORSE!!
I carry virtually all the time cause of the risk present. I always have a rifle close at hand too- Paranoid? I think not.
My friends in law enforcement and various professions feel we know why and what it would take to correct the problem but the solution is politically impossible.
I will say nothing further than to say our crime profile fits the expected FBI stats on breakdown of crime by ethnicity and proportionate frequency for large numbers of violent crimes.
My Sheriiff notes the criminal individuals who procure "assault weapons" usually don't own any other rifles but usually possess handguns as their primary armament.Larry feels their primary reason is to shoot "whomever they want" at the moment.
Again I have no problems with any moral individual possessing such firearms but such weapons in the hands of immoral individuals endangers ALL our rights.
-------------------- An armed man is a citizen of his country, an unarmed man just a subject.