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I live in the middle of an area overrun with drug dealers. What do you suggest, that I avoid my front yard?

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ORIGINAL: eulero83

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

I can still catch flies barehanded and I can didn't learn to shoot from watching movies so you are wrong. My problem is endurance not ability. Any fight over a minute and I am in trouble.
Bad guys here don't use toy guns. They use knifes or guns. And I live in the middle of an area overrun with drug dealers. What do you suggest, that I avoid my front yard?

It's not they use toy gun because they are good in spirit and don't want to hurt anyone it's just that it's virtually impossible if you don't have a lot of money buy a gun that has serial number ereased so most of small criminals can't have, probably because privately selling to individuals is virtually impossible and if your gun is missing or worse used by somebady elses in a crime you'll have lot and lot of troubles, but with the GUN CONSUMISM you had in the past and don't want to change, and I'm sorry but I don't know if you'll ever be able to turn back, every ghetto scumbag could start a quicker career in crime with less burocracy and little capital, because of that now in your neighbourhood is closer to the third world than how it's acceptable.
As I told you I don't oppose to your owning a gun, and I also think you are perfectly right to shoot an intruder inside your home or shop or smeone that points a knife to you (if someone points a gun to me I don't think I would have time enough to draw mine so...) but this won't change the fact your area is overrun with drug dealers, that's not normal in a developed country.

Just curious about how many times did you need to use your gun in your 63years of life?