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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C Jay, post: 390081, member: 13184&quot;]For the last 20 years I had lived in one of those really bad neighborhoods were 911 is refered to as a &quot;clean-up call&quot;.&nbsp; I have a career in the arts.&nbsp; I bought into the neighborhood before it really bottomed out, it was all I could afford at the time.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had Crips on the corner, dealt with my share of crack head neighbors, and have seen a drive by shooting up close and personal, and not once have I ever considered owning a gun, or moving.&nbsp; Not that I don&#039;t understand what guns for, or how to use them, I grew up around military bases and my dad was career military.&nbsp; For me it&#039;s a personal choice, and that melt weighs a little to heavy in moral obilgation for my situation and liking.&nbsp; I also would never restrict anyone from ever owning or carring a gun, like I said, it&#039;s a personal choice and besides, guns don&#039;t bother me.</p><p>The other thing about really bad neighborhoods, it&#039;s only 20 to 30 percent of the people here giving the rest of us a bad name.&nbsp; Most of the people here are good hard working, honest people with lousy jobs. We started watching each other&#039;s back.&nbsp; We compaired notes, got in the face of those up to no good, shouted down crack heads breaking into a neighbor&#039;s house, and we reported on the really bad boys.&nbsp; Courage and a since of community has turned this area around, it was fear and isolation is what allowed it to fester.&nbsp; Comming to the point of this tread, develope a since of community, look out your shop window and look after the neighboring businesses.&nbsp; Know the other owners and compair notes.&nbsp; At a coin show, leave in groups.&nbsp; Become known as a close community where the likleyhood of being seen is high, because criminals compair notes also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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