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Get that close again give a holler & we will go shoot.

Thought so. I bet we get a lot of the same answers. You are in the big city & I am in the small town. The above store was in Diboll where our church is. 5,000 pop. 3 lights. No barber shop. One parts house....

Why do you have to carry that gun every where you go? I know some of you have that ? asked by family or friends. I don't hear it at my house & am thankful. Wife & Mother both have theirs. Why? Jan. 2004 I started gathering news articles of major crime in Lufkin area. Criteria had to be that it took place in a business or at a place I go at a time that I have been there or would be there. Times when Law abiding Citizens are out & about & in places good law abiding people go. This precluded the 2:00 am armed robery of the corner Stop & Rob w/ one employee. At present one every 4 months major crime & all have been a gunpoint has taken place at a place I go & at a time I go there. Last one was Wed evening. We were headed home from church & 2 sets of strobes ahead of us quit a ways. 8:15 Headed home from church & convenience store on main highway robbed at gunpoint. This is a regular fuel stop & occasional gateraid in the summer. We were less than 5 min from passing as the get away car left. These incidents have been Bank robberies, mad former employee w/ gun in place of business, armed roberies, & a meth head heavily armed, running from LEO, & almost getting into a General $ store less than 1/2 mile from us that we use as our main convenience store for milk, bread, etc, everything but gas. I do not believe this track record is as unusual as a few have thought. I believe the general public walks around in Condition White & w/ a memory about as long the hair on their pet frog. Anyone else keep records to hand out to those that will ask why you carry 24-7 or just give them the seat belt answer. I show the folder & folks say, yes I go there too & I remember. Then they go back to condition white & activate that short memory & go about their business of paying bills but not attention to surroundings.