Update on UNC coed murder case.

mercymom
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:47:13 +0000

Do you think it is the gun laws or the culture? I am personally opposed to guns, but the argument is the bad guys have them and you have to protect yourself. Right now I know a woman contractor who works in New Orleans repairing houses. So many of the neighborhoods she works in, all the houses, or most of them, are vacant that she carries a handgun in her truck at all times, and then brings it in with her while she’s inspecting/working on a house repair. She told me she feels very safe in New Orleans, that the vast majority of the crime is drug/gang related, but she wouldn’t think of going anywhere in town w/o her gun in her truck.

When I told my dying deer story awhile back, the woman who flagged me down to help just assumed I had a gun in the car I could shoot the deer with. These are women, mind you. I wouldn’t know how to shoot a gun if I needed to and don’t particularly want to learn.