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Originally Posted by GeeRam
The past few pages of this thread now makes me appreciate living in the UK a little bit more, despite the fact that as a UK shooter we moan and bitch about our ever more restrictive firearms laws having had centre-fire semi-auto rifles banned 30 years ago, and handguns banned 20 years ago.......
But, someone like poor Sara is still reasonably safe to walk alone in almost any part of the UK at anytime, let alone having to contemplate open or CC for protection!
And I've made some 12 visits over to the USA during the past 30 years!!
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Just depends on the area you are in. New Orleans is infamous for some of the crime areas like south side of chicago or patrs of Los Angeles, etc. After Katrina, many New Orleans citizens came here to Florida and went to Texas. The crime rate here skyrocketed for a few years as s result but now its getting back to normal. In England, the population is pretty homogeneous. Its very mixed in the US. Sara being blonde small woman would stick out in nany areas down there as someone lost or where they don't belong to local criminals and be an easy target. You wouldn't find that phenomenon in England. So a gun for her is an equalizer. If guns were outlawed she'd be easy pickings as we see happening in areas with strict gun laws. But in areas that allow carry, criminals think twice.