oh things are getting interesting.
nothing that I am on particular edge about, but I am trying to get things swung my way, I have found out a considerable ammount of people locally are having similar problems.
For you that dont know or never have seen what can be considerd a "section-8" neighborhood, it is what is commonly referred to as a "hood" or a "ghetto".
There are three types of people here:
The users, the used, and the pretenders.
I think you can see the breakdowns, users being the people who make money by living in a slum. Drug dealers, and the people who benefit.
The used: Old people. Plenty of them. Persons who have gotten washed over in the system. Persons with mental disorders. Kids. Its a continual renewal. The kids either get beat up or grow up tough or punks.
Its sad.
Now for about 5 of the first years I was here I was a pretender. People left me alone because of a spread of nice cars, me walking out in a suit every once in a while, and leaving early in military uniforms once a month.
Well the renewal of people who live here continually grows, people come and go at a much higher rate then in any other neighborhood, I would say twice a week I see a moving van. More people who can leave have left, the only people left here are persons on social security, someone involved in something illegal, and a few persons like me who has used this neighborhood for its location, and put up with the problems.
There are many poor working class persons who also live here.
I have been in about 4 seperate incidents in the 9 years I was here. Nothing I was ever charged for, I did always have a damn good reason. I had to draw a pistol for one of them, it was in my own justifiable protection.
I am not perfect by any means, and if I really scrimped I could possibly afford to move somewhere else. I can afford about 400 dollars, but that puts me into a position of renting and going to renting is something I am not interested in. Selling this house might get 3 or 4 thousand tomarrow, largely because of where it is, and what goes on here.
I have seen most of the users make enough money and leave, the pretenders leave after they cant pretend anmore and everyone else is used.
For all the gun talk, you have to understand I am picking up the AK primarily because my brother has a mousegun and thought it would be interesting to have the counterpart. Fully legal, semi auto. Nice finishes etc. I am not looking for crap. They are damn cheap to shoot, for 50 bucks you can entertain a group of friends who have not ever had an opprotunity to shoot one. 300 dollars for a nice, completely legal semi auto. I am not worried entirely too much about home defense. Its not going to stay here long.
I am going to check with my friend to see if he can pick me up a druganov paratrooper, and have him convert it to semi auto. I am sure that would be the nicest eastern block weapon legally obtainiable.
The reason I am not bringing another pistol into the house RIGHT AWAY is because I simply do not want it stolen again. I had a CCL from another county, It expired about 3 years ago. I do believe I am going to be tomarrow contacting the sheriffs office here and see what they can do with helping me obtain another CCL and if they can expedite it. They pick up people from all over here constantly, I am sure they would understand.
Yeah puppet, I pulled the price for what I can buy one that is comprable to what I had, it had about 2 hours of machine work, action polished, trigger work and the slide deburred. The slide I externally rouge wheeled all of the die cast areas to a mild polish. I put the 20 hours of work to turn a good shooting gun into a good looking good shooting gun.
