CardboardKiller said:
...I hope you are not telling me what kind of town I live in, there has never been a mugging, we have a murder every 3 or 4 years...
That sure sounds to me as if you were saying "never."
From the link you posted above, I checked out the police report and the sheriff's report. Selected incidents from
your town and the surroundings areas, in one week, include:
Dec. 18
Cynthia Vannoy reported personal checks were stolen.
Dec. 19
Kirk Jarrod Bean of Lamar reported the theft of a shotgun, four rifles, a revolver and a belt and holster from his residence.
Dec. 20
Virginia Totten of Lamar reported an incident of criminal mischief and sexual harassment.
Billy Gray reported a third degree battery incident at a Highway 292 residence.
Dec. 21
Donna Gattis reported the theft and forgery of three personal checks.
Bruce D. Kimpton of Coal Hill reported the theft of cash.
John Pellham reported the theft of three reindeer outdoor decorations from his property.
Dec. 22
Wendy Woodward of Hartman reported an incident of terroristic threatening. A subject involved in the incident was later arrested on five violation of the Arkansas Hot Check Law warrants by Hill.
Dec. 24
Inman arrested a subject at a Patton Circle residence for criminal impersonation.
From the police report, of the same week:
Dec. 20
Ross served a subject with eight violation of the Arkansas Hot Check Law warrants.
Patrolman Larry Sanders investigated a rape of a Clarksville juvenile female.
Dec. 22
Melissa Terry of Harmony Road reported the theft of a 1991 Pontiac from her residence. The vehicle was later recovered at a Harmony Road residence.
Dec. 24
Donaldson arrested a subject after a high speed chase through Clarksville for DWI No. 1, fleeing (auto related), reckless driving, implied consent and running a stop light.
Dec. 25
Stephen Spoor reported his vehicle license plate, Kansas QLX 442, was stolen.
I hope you do not feel like I am picking on you. That's not my intent, and I'm not only talking to you. I'm talking to every person who thinks he lives in some magical, crime-free zone, wherein he is perfectly safe because "it's never happened here." As I said above, all it takes is
one Bad Person in your general area to ruin your whole day.
The above quote illustrates that neither your town, nor any other, is crime-free. If you choose to go unarmed in public (or even at home), it is your own choice. But do not fool yourself into thinking that you may do so because you live in a crime-free zone. You do not. If you think the risk is low, that's fine. But the risk is there whether you acknowledge it or not.
Check this out, too. It's a site which lets you check out crime stats for your city. I put in the zip code of the Clarksville newspaper, and received back -- well, the results are at
http://cops.heritage.org/detail.cfm?ori=AR03601 (Get there through
www.crime-stats.org if that doesn't work). The stats aren't too recent; I think there's a better one at
www.apbnews.com but the site is down.
Anyway. Fact is, you
don't live in a crime-free zone, and you
do need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
pax
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
edited to fix a link