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Originally Posted by B-flat
Your post caught my attention. When we travel by car to and from New England we usually spend the first night in a hotel that’s less than 2 miles from that Panera. In the past we have bought our evening meal there, I would have never guessed that was the site of a shooting.
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When two cops are gunned down in broad daylight, that just goes to show there is nowhere safe from crime anymore, even inside a Paneras. That's 15 miles outside of the Baltimore Beltway and was 200 yards from my old home.
In Florida there is about 2 million concealed weapon permit holders. In the past on this board, when someone asked about getting a concealed weapon permit, there's always someone who will say, why would you need that in TV.
Here's a beautiful neighborhood in Windemere where the former Minneapolis police officer owns property. Yesterday the mob of rioters defaced the property. Can you imagine if they had renters in there, and suddenly 100 people are in the yard, angry people. How about the next door neighbors, they couldn't walk outside their own home. Here's some of what they did, that's one side, it's vandalized all around. They finally brought police in when it obvious they were not peaceful. This is called a protest? There is NO way anyone can justify this type behavior.
The 60's protest, I'll tell you what that did for me. I had a draft lottery number of 265, a number that high meant I would never be drafted. At the same time I was enrolled at St. Petersburg JC, so I had a college deferment as long as I was enrolled. After watching those riots on TV, in the middle of my second year I didn't enroll in January '70 and dropped out and enlisted in the Army. How many of these rioters, and even these outspoken ones on this thread ever served this country? I can remember one who has mentioned this before, Bucco, the others can chime in and don't say the Boy Scouts.
Here I am in 1971 standing outside my mobile control tower in the DMZ of South Korea 3 miles from Panmunjom.