"RMDumse" wrote in message
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On Oct 20, 8:34 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
Nobody cares about philosophy when the issue is being shot at.

Issue or fact? Ed, have you ever been shot at?

Which one of us is talking idle theory and B-movies about red neck
Bubba and his deer rifle, and which one experience?

After I swept up the 45 lbs of broken glass from my front door and
shipped it to the mayor of Dallas, I wrote another letter to the
governer. He wrote back saying he was sending a TX ranger out. I was
so excited I was beside myself. I'd heard such stories. He came to my
office, sat across from me, and basically plaid dumb, saying he didn't
know of anything he could do. I told him why didn't he go down to the
Dallas evidence locker and get the video tape I had of the Jeep
pulling up in front of my place and the four guys getting out and
shooting up my door? (Different incident.) He could use video scan
equipment to pull off the license plate, and go have a talk with those
boys, ask them not to do it again?

And there's proof of my point, Randy. You're armed, your friend is armed,
but you had to sweep 45 lb. of broken glass from your front door. I didn't.

In other words, your being armed didn't help you. And you still feel you
have to be armed. Eventually, I hope, it will sink in: being armed isn't the
solution. Living in a place that's safer for your family is the solution.
You're still at high risk, apparently, despite your principles and your
loaded guns.


When he snorted "Welll I wouldn't begin to know where to get any
equipment like that!" I lost my cool. I yelled at him, "Have you ever
been in a gun fight?" As he begin to sputter "Well no...I haven't" I
yelled "It changes your attitude!" He said, "Well, ah, yes Mr. Dumse,
from talkin' with those that have, ah, I hear that it does..." So the
trip out from the Ranger was as useless as anything. Very
disappointing.

No, no, your right, I wasn't 82 Airborne.

I was Top Gun Sixth Fleet in our surface navy.

That's great, and I'm glad you were. It appears you've mentally transferred
your navy experience to living among gang-bangers, as if there is some
parallel. There is no parallel. Your navy experience would not help much if
you found yourself in an urban insurgency, to extend the war analogy. But
there is no war analogy. You aren't even facing political insurgents. You're
facing opportunistic criminals. And if you're in a neighborhood that
provides the environment they like and the opportunities they want, they'll
keep coming, no matter how many guns you have. They don't know if you're
armed or not, and most of them probably don't care. They wouldn't understand
your assumption that they are rational, and they could care less.


Now it has been hard to tell from your response, if you think the
military should be armed, or if our pressence out there in the world
had anything to do with your quite, safe, little town being quite and
safe. I'm saying it does.

So would I. But that has nothing to do with gang-bangers. They don't have
generals. They don't have any sense. They just have a desire for something
you have.

I'm also saying the pillars of the community
are backed by force of arms, wether it is visible or not. To me, the
NRA's approach is that of appologist, and I have this idea that rights
are rights, and not negotiable without a change in the Constitution.

And you may not understand it or agree, but I'm glad James Walton is
my neighbor for the past 20 years. I couldn't ask for a better one.

That's fine. Now, if he's so good to have around, why did he have to call
the police 42 times and *still* have to shoot and kill two criminals who
broke in? How much use is *that*? How much safer are you because he's there?
No speculation now. Just facts, please.

--
Ed Huntress