>Hi, John
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>I feel pretty safe while walking at night, unarmed. While this is not true for two areas of my city (where live most of gipsies we have and we can't get rid of them), I have no mental reservation going out, no matter what the time is and no matter the place where I'm going.
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>Again, I think is a matter of cultural difference.
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It's the same here. I used to live in Midtown Memphis. Had to arrest three neighbors, knocked one of them out cold. Then had a woman get shot at in my driveway. I moved to the suburbs, then moved out even further. Living in the middle of any major city is taking a risk with your family's lives. I don't worry for me because I carry a gun every day and am an expert marksman, but I can't always be around my family. They are safe now in the rural countryside where I don't have to worry about them. My youngest daughter was asking me about living in midtown recently. I took her to a website the police dept has that shows the crimes that have occurred in the last 30 days and showed her the difference between where she was wanting to move to, and where we live now. I think she understands it's about minimizing exposure to risk.