"Ed Huntress" wrote in message news:...

Eh, I think I misread a couple of things you were saying. Sorry about that.
Let's clean them up quickly:


"RMDumse" wrote in message
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To the
degree they [meaning good guys, which I mistook] aren't there, is a
measure of how welcome the bad guys
feel, and it determines in the long run if the community stays safe...
If you aren't the guy making the community safe, your benefiting from
his solemn resolution.

Bad guys don't make "solemn resolutions," except in dime-store novels.

I see now you meant "good guys" make the solemn resolutions. Again, if that
were true, you wouldn't need to be armed, and I would. Since the opposite
appears to be true, based on actual crimes committed, there is something
wrong with your theory, eh?


In moving, community to be safe, you're running
to him for protection. As far as those "guys" having a big "self
image" thing going on, you probably don't even know they're there. You
don't get to see what is in their souls until you witness it in
action, if you ever do. They don't fit stereotypes.

I don't need his protection. What's far better for me and my family is to be
in a place where we don't have enough violent crime to worry about. That's
what we have, and what you apparently don't. That's your choice.

'Hope that clears things up.

--
Ed Huntress