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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    Right now in my area we are still a High Trust community. I can leave my doors unlocked and my vehicles unsecured with very little chance of theft. Maybe a month or two. But eventually it will happen. The crime is gradually spilling out of the BLUE areas. I’ve witnessed this personally. My own small county of 14000 is being preyed upon by looters and parasites from the metros. Best to adopt a Low Trust stance early. We have lost $2500 worth of merchandise recently. With little hope of recouping our losses because our legal system was intended for a “moral and just people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” No matter if .gov wants to admit it or not, we are entering into a period of lawlessness with no means to protect our interests because of a faulty government.
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    • Posted by freedomforall 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      Depending on your local/state laws, you may be able to take on the self responsibility of protecting your own interests.
      It does require more active participation (and more direct expense.)
      The 'wild west' may be coming to our neighborhoods. We need to prepare and steel our minds to necessary activity.
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    • Posted by tutor-turtle 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      I lived in a town of 50,000. One block down was crack-ville. I went on a two-week vacation. When we came back, we realized we had left the front door open, wide open, for two weeks. Not a thing was missing or out of place. Go figure. Mail came through a brass slot in the front door, the mailman simply tossed our mail, in a pile, on the front hall floor.
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  • Posted by $ 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    Which brings into play my objections to the fact we are getting so many people coming across our Border when a good many of them are dangerous. I find this influx of illegal immigrants totally unacceptable. I find it laughable the people who stole this Presidential election are suffering even more than I am. What goes around comes around. N
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    A couple of years ago during a bright and sunny afternoon, I was watching something on TV when the doorbell rang.
    I was slow getting up due to a knee injury. Door bell rang again. "Give me a minute!"
    Doorbell rang again. "I'm coming!"
    Doorbell rang again. I wondered whoever my visitor was had any ears.
    When I opened the door, I saw two muscular bigger than me young black teens running away like hell down my driveway.
    Evidently, they did not have a car. At the end of the driveway they turned and ran like hell up the street.
    They were obviously up to no good. Wonder what spooked them. My slowness? It says "Neighborhood Watch" on a front window, but they should have seen that as they came to ring my doorbell.
    Anyway, should anyone kick in my front door where I watch TV, I'll be showing them a gun.
    You know, for show and tell.
    Should I be expecting a couple of illegals next?
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    • Posted by bobsprinkle 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      glad they ran off
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 3 weeks ago
        Me too. Now I answer the door with a gun in my hand. Never pointed at it with my trigger finger outside the trigger guard.
        I've a little Beretta Tomcat I can slip into a front pocket before a visitor I want to visit can see it.
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        • Posted by $ katrinam41 10 months, 3 weeks ago
          Same here. Glad they ran. I always have my firearms handy. No little ones running around the house (my youngest grandchild is a better shot than I am, and just one place short of earning his black belt at age 10), so my pieces are loaded but not locked. Too many people showing up at my door lately, as well as what looks like drug deals going down in the park across the street. The whole area changed with the lockdown and bidumb.
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    • Posted by $ 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      I have a Terrier who raises holy hell when someone even stops in front of my condo. The only person he really likes is my mailman (who thinks my doggie is special)., But I keep my powder dry boys. N
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  • Posted by $ katrinam41 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    My little city has always had problem areas, but now those problems are inching their way across the entire area. Drugs are the biggie, but assault and murder follow right behind. Burglary is not yet a problem--too many property owners willing to defend themselves, but car jacking is becoming a plague.
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    • Posted by $ 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      We have teenagers who live under the bridge and bathe in the bath house at the city park. A local doctor keeps them supplied with sandwiches and occasionally dispenses free medical advice. They don't bother anyone.They can get clothing at a local church any Wednesday. The food pantry dispenses food every Thursday.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 10 months, 2 weeks ago
    Would not recommend that in a big city, the squatter issue is ignored by judicial. We live in a rural sub, 1 1/2 acres, 200 trees, and a very protective dog. I have left the keys in the door when I have come home with items in my hand. We do have a prof. security system, with panic button, but the dog is quicker. With migrants from all ovr of all walks, squatter from US, we have to be vigilent, Biden wiaitng to take property rights away. Also have a rifle beside the pool talbe, which made the sheriff very uneasy when he was out for a visit off the job. Life is tough, you have to stay tougher.
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    I have left the keys to my pickup - an old beater - in the ignition for the last 15 years. There have been occasions where neighbors have needed to borrow it - and it always came back with a full gas tank!! Small town... Am just real concerned about what we are going to be going to go through with this nonsense at the border. Agree with Allosaur..... the folks around here know what they can borrow - and if there were another type trying to take something..... don't come to the door......
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 3 weeks ago
    I do that sort of stuff all the time. It's a good reminder that it's only a small sector of the population that we need to be worried about.

    The rest? They'd take my keys, set them inside the door and lock from the outside, if at all possible.

    ETA: FOUR times, in the DFW area, I have left my purse (with actual CASH, credit cards, and phone) open in a cart in the parking lot. I won't bother telling you the amount of anguish I experienced, once I realized that I had left my world open to every passer-by.

    In each instance, my entire cache of goods was returned to me, unmolested, including aforementioned cash, credit cards, and phone. This is in the DALLAS area! (Also, once in Tulsa. The returnee was actually in my same online app, and we corresponded after the fact - I was thrilled to thank her for her trouble.)

    Editing again to add: people are good. Really good. Except for the one or two who aren't . But we are directed to pay attention to the "aren't," while ignoring the good, and I believe this is to our detriment.
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    • Posted by JakeOrilley 10 months, 3 weeks ago
      People are good - until they don't want to work and realize that if they just take there is no consequence. I have found people to be good,,,,,i have left my keys in my pickup for 15 years... but the people that are coming are going to be more desperate, know they have broken the law already, and know they will not get prosecuted (in certain areas) for taking anything they can - and this is the part that really fries my bacon..... if I do anything to slow them down, let alone stop them, I will be the one in the docket.....
      I have been treated excellent most of my life by my fellow travelers on this earth....but the fellow travelers are becoming more brazen, know they will not have consequences and are more desperate. Have seen changes around here already in the schools and streets...... becoming concerned.....
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      • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 3 weeks ago
        Yep, that is actually true. In my case, all the good things that have happened with my abandoned possessions do not leave me thinking that I can be casual about how I handle my stuff!

        Indeed, after those occasions I have made a much bigger effort to pay attention. And in recollection, I realize that each instance was due to an extreme upset over my job. Well, guess what? I got rid of the job and I haven’t left my purse in the past six years!

        But i do agree with you….things are changing and it’s getting to be not very pretty.
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