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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tree68</i> <br /><br />Methinks that it's not the laws, but the culture that makes a huge difference in gun incidents. Remember - the gangs in LA (and elsewhere) <i>know</i> that members of other gangs are carrying. Still a lot of shooting going on. I suspect that if you plopped one of the major metropolises down in the middle of Texas, the murder rate would change a lot. Witness the disclaimer about the border region of Texas. Is the culture different there than in the panhandle? You betcha! <br /> <br />Start stuffing people into Houston's transit the way they do in NYC and see if the incidents rise. And hey, I might be Mister Cool with my gun 99 44/100% of the time, but don't push me... <br /> <br />BTW - I don't own any firearms.... My pellet pistol won't do a lot of damage. Probably just make you madder... <br />[/quote] <br /> <br /> <br /> Actually, the metropolises of Texas (little itty bitty places like Dallas, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Austin, etc.) are quite safe. The border areas along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas (and similar areas in Southern Arizona and the Southern Imperial Valley of California) have substantially higher violent crime rates affected by the coyotes of La Eme (heavily-armed smugglers of human beings, narco-traffickers, and a few rustlers and home-invasion robbers and truck hijackers thrown in for good measure, and frequently with a former background in the Mexican Army). I've lost four relatives on my mother's side in a couple of different locales in the Rio Grande Valley to those folks. That's why the good farmers and ranchers in that area are pretty well fed up with government's apparent abdication of responsibility in that regard by their not keeping the border safe, secure, and inpenetrable by that criminal crowd. <br /> <br />Sincerely, Ross R. Moore, Jr.
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