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Letter to the editor
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:09 am
by seamusTX
From the Galveston County Daily News, this date:
Citizens’ Guns Way To Police Neighborhoods
Shawn Plummer’s letter “Isle criminals are more brazen now” (The Daily News, May 17) was right on target. Since Hurricane Ike, criminals have had a field day.
On a bright sunny day, two busted through my son’s front door. With my .380 Bersa, I chased them down the street. They don’t realize how close they came to immediate justice and death.
Instead of taking a family vacation, we and some friends took Tom Estep’s concealed-handgun-licensing class. Now, more than a dozen of us are arms trained and “packing heat.” We fully intend to defend ourselves and our property.
Our neighborhood has four small “ghetto houses.” Teens go in them and smoke and deal drugs. Recently, two were having sex against a wall. I yelled that I had called the police. They moved on.
We have called the police more than three dozen times in the past six months for pit bulls running loose, sex acts out in the open, drug deals, break-ins, etc. We citizens are forced to police our neighborhoods. Now, many of us are “armed and dangerous” to criminals.
We are all for gun control. If there is a gun in play, we want to be the ones controlling it.
Diane Byers
Galveston
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- Jim
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Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:19 am
by USA1
good for them,i have a great amount of respect for LEOs, but we cant rely on police to protect us 24/7
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:55 pm
by G.C.Montgomery
Something tells me her answer to question #2 on the test was "armed dangerous and ready for action!."
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:33 am
by seamusTX
In the wee hours Monday, a pack of five dogs running loose killed my old friend mama cat. I shot my licensed pistol into the ground to scare them off, but it was too late. I called the police so they would know the reason, should anyone call in “gun shot heard.”
They came out, and I reported the incident, with descriptions of the dogs.
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- Jim
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:51 am
by WildBill
seamusTX wrote:In the wee hours Monday, a pack of five dogs running loose killed my old friend mama cat. I shot my licensed pistol into the ground to scare them off, but it was too late. I called the police so they would know the reason, should anyone call in “gun shot heard.”
They came out, and I reported the incident, with descriptions of the dogs.
- Jim
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:02 am
by seamusTX
BTW, people who neglect to neuter their pets and who let them run loose and mess on lawns do not read the letters to the editor (if they can read at all—the people, that is, not the dogs).
Neither do people who litter or illegally park in handicapped spots.
- Jim
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:25 am
by wgoforth
seamusTX wrote:BTW, people who neglect to neuter their pets and who let them run loose and mess on lawns do not read the letters to the editor (if they can read at all—the people, that is, not the dogs).
Neither do people who litter or illegally park in handicapped spots.
- Jim
I do too!
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:55 am
by The Annoyed Man
We are all for gun control. If there is a gun in play, we want to be the ones controlling it.
There it is.
Re: Letter to the editor
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:56 am
by WildBill
The Annoyed Man wrote:We are all for gun control. If there is a gun in play, we want to be the ones controlling it.
There it is.
She stole this line from Clint Eastwood. - "Pink Cadillac"
I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.