recent shooting how are you reacting

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we all have heard of the recent shootings. dc today, the recruiter a few weeks ago the abortion doc before that. while it may just be that they are just making the news more right now but i dont think so. i have noticed in my small town our murder rate is rising and it kinda scares me.

how are you reacting to this? carrying more?

i know for me ive been taking my shotgun where i can (under 21) and when i go our farm i bring a revolver to stick on the dash, my brother inlaw stuck his glock in the glove box and locked it in there untill his permit comes through

we both work for direct tv so we are in strange places all over the area some nice some very bad
 
The guy in DC was a convicted felon and shouldn't have had a gun in the first place. He was also in DC and we all know about their laws.--It just proves gun control doesn't work period.

I'm all for CCW because I believe like many others that it limits the ability of whackjobs to come in and kill people en masse. It's a pretty simple to make the connection that it is easier to slaughter the unarmed.
If a degenerate walks into a place where people are carrying and tries to wipe them out the degenerate may still have victims but at some point that degenerate will be eliminated by a good guy with a gun.

The way I see it is that the bad folks are already armed so the good guys need to carry to tip the scales.

We've also had some home invasions around here so I now carry at home with no exceptions.
 
here in my town like the last 4 years we have had 1-2 murders a year

so far this year we have had 6, 4 by the same guy thankfully the cops caught him leaving the 4th murder

its kinda scary especially when i go to do an install in a lower class trailor park. there is one that we arent allowed to go to with less than 6 people 2 for the install 4 for the trucks. its a trailor park that ms13(mexican mafia) has pretty well taken over and really doesnt like outsiders coming in
 
Well not so much due to the shooting, but violent crime is up 17% this year in my city - mostly aggravated assaults. I am carrying 95% of the time instead of 90% of the time now.

Dunno if it's the economy or just normal variances/cycles in the crime rate. I'm guessing the economy has something to do with this.
 
My reaction is that I have not been surprised by recent events. It's going to get a whole lot worse. I reacted by getting proactive sometime ago.

I hope enough people react next year so that we can take our country back.
 
Dunno if it's the economy or just normal variances/cycles in the crime rate. I'm guessing the economy has something to do with this.
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If crime rates are rising, and it's not just a rise in reporting for whatever reason then I firmly believe that it's got to be the economy.

Guy loses job, is either broke or worse deep in debt, can't handle situation, and cracks. Then he must find and punish scapegoat because it's the American way, "Never take responsibility for your own actions if you can find someone (this moron on DC today using Jews) to blame. It's not my theory, but it is the one I've heard that makes the most sense to me.
 
He was also in DC and we all know about their laws.--It just proves gun control doesn't work period.
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Although he commited his crime in DC, he was actually from Maryland. Even if he was from DC, the gun laws there did not cover the type of weapon he used in his crime. Not saying your conclusion is wrong but I just don't think your conclusion can be supported by the facts of this particular case.
 
I believe its a socioeconomic condition. However, while I still remain as cautious as ever, this condition has yet to have any real affect on my desire to be more armed/prepared than I already am.
 
This case reminded me to be on top my situational awareness. Also, I didn't have much of a emotional reaction. As I was hearing the news of this case, my mind immediately started analyzing the case in a cold manner. Maybe I'm a bit jaded. While hearing the news, I immediately tried to figure out how this case would affect gun control. The more the media reported, I started thinking that this case is not a huge gun issue. Maybe that's me being a bit naive.

Anyway, rather than focusing on the guns, the news reports that I saw were focusing on what a whack job this guy is. The media's handling of this case is an indictment on the meaning of "terrorist". Are these domestic, homegrown terrorist the most dangerous to us? Think about that whack job who recently murdered that abortion doctor. This crap is on the verge of being total chaos.
 
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Yes...situational awareness...people-awareness, 'vibes', intimations...scents-in-the-winds...


This of course has not changed for millions of years...even if Firearms as recent inventions, allow individual people, their own enhanced indulgences.


Mentally unstable, impetuously violent 88 year old weilding a .22 Rifle - seems to me an average Cub Scout could have probably tackled and or disarmed him...but, oh well...whatchagunnado...


Lotsa hype...media pumping prepakaged emotion into millions of state-sponsored IVs...lotsa 'victim mentality', or, contestations between factions of victim mentality, personified...


We have more han 300,000,000 people in the U.S.


Under the present rather stressed and steadily for decades of socially and economially deterioraing conditions, it's rather amazing if anything, that people's deportment, tolerance and forbearing, is as good as it is.


Media and government resent this positive bearing and general character of the American polyglot of People, and will hype anything they can spin and emotionalize and validate to enourage victims, and thus to corrupt it.
 
What's there to react to? I've always been of the opinion that there are far too many nutjobs and criminals on the loose and that the only people who truly want to protect myself and my family are myself and my family. The latest incidents only reinforce that belief.

It's business as usual for me...
 
My reaction?

The whackaloons are crawling out from under their rocks. They somehow seem to think they now have "permission" to act out their psychotic fantasies.

It hasn't affected my personal routine other than to raise thoughts about how utterly sick, hateful, and mindless some folks are. :rolleyes:
 
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watch that age bit BUD.I am 85:D it is not the economy .its the permissive sociaty that has made these people feel they have a right to do what they want.the wackos are the exception they are all over the world.mostly its the criminal mind and the alcohol and drugs.before drugs and there was that time
before WW2.alcohol has always been the prime mover to criminal minds.and there are more people so there is more chance of increase in deviant behavure.and to those in the south the increase in births among the blacks have lead to more crime and they dont seem to have any morals to killing.
our mexicans have a 30% CRIMINAL RATE the blacks about 50% and rest at
20%.:rolleyes: :uhoh: :eek:
 
I don't know what to say about all of the recent shootings. It seems like people have reached the point of taking up arms, but they aren't aimed where I think they should be. That said, I am getting increasingly fed up with the lack of respect for the gun enthusiast community. People can be mad at murderers who use guns as their weapon. I'm mad at them. It's turning more people with power (media) against guns in general. I just don't see how someone can call themselves an American and then try to condemn and FORCE people out of one of their given RIGHTS! All we here on TV about gun owners is how they are all "hillybilly, white trash, bible-beating, gun owning, right wing lunatics" Blood pressure rising...hands shaking...i'm off topic...I'm out
 
I think I can look beyond the end of my nose and see that this is media hype. :neener:

Thus I ignore it. :)
 
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