[dave weil]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:47:55 -0400,
wrote:

Personally, I'd also like the right to interact with the public
without the hidden presence of guns, but that's just my own personal
preference.

Then I would suggest you stay out of Da Hood, especially at
night.

First of all, I *live* in "Da Hood" (or close enough to it to hear
shots occasionally and to have the guy across the street from me shot
to death in the alley behind his house over an argument over home
repairs). I suspect that you're writing this from your safe surburban
home.

Second of all, I work downtown where there is plenty of crime. I often
leave work after 11pm. Well, personally, I'm just not going to live in
fear like you apparently do, nor do I think that carrying a gun would
make me feel any safer, and yes, I've had plenty of experience with
guns of all sizes.