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The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners
Detroit citizens no longer rely on police as self-defense killings skyrocket
Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/05/020512-news-detroit-vigilantes-1-5/
I never travel without a loaded gun. I usually carry a Smith and Wesson Model 640 in a bucket in the trunk of my car. Sometimes I carry a Glock Model 23 instead. I was really happy I was carrying the former when I arrived at my hotel room in Amarillo last week shortly after midnight. As I was unpacking my trunk, a man came walking across the parking lot from an adjacent hotel. His largely incoherent introduction began something like this:
“Hey, I’m a big scary black man and I need some help. Won’t nobody help me ‘cause I’m a...
When I started college teaching in Detroit, many of my students expressed fear in their own neighborhoods. Now they get their CCW/CPL and carry a gun.