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fulano wrote:IMFMO
I worked in Houston for 16+ years. Eight of those years I lived there.

I lived and worked in Dallas for 20+ years. I compare the two.

I had many many personal incidents in Houston. License plate thefts, two. Registration sticker theft (scraped off the windshield), one. Car vandalism, three. Car "breaking and entering, two. Personal threat situations, two. Witness to a reported crime, two. Other incidents I avoided, many. I carried in Houston before GWB signed the law....to protect my life.

My apartment was in the Galleria area and was gated with a 24 hour attendent. I had stolen mail, vandalism, breakin in this apartment and nobody knew nuttin'. In Dallas metro area, I've lived in Farmersbranch, Garland, Denton, Plano, and Dallas and have never (knock on my PM9) been threatened, been witness to a crime or vandalized here.

You don't want to hear it but.....The Dallas metroplex is segregated financially and through zoning. Everyone..that's everyone, knows the "bad part of town". In Houston, the whole city is glomed together with good neighborhoods and bad ones only a block apart and the ease of the gangs and crooks to cross from one place to the other is irresistible; and they do.

IMFMO

The only place I have ever personally seen a pistol fired in anger was late at night in the '70's near Six Flags over Texas, a man drove off without paying for gas and the owner ran out and fired the gun in the air. I came in for directions and decided not to stick around, I would get them some where else. So I don't have the same view of Dallas.

Funny how your personal safety alarm can go off so quickly though. I was in Austin over the weekend and I was on 6th street (not carrying) I felt fine and perfectly safe at 8:00 but when I came out after dinner at 10:00 I didnt. Just didnt feel right. I briskly walked West to Congress.

In Paris, (France), I walked everywhere at night, in the day, felt perfectly safe. When I returned my French friends said "you went where, are you crazy" It all looked so picturesque, I did not see the danger.

I have a friend from Iran, looking for a house, we discuss neighborhoods in Houston, and I asked do they have good and bad neighborhoods in Iran. You betcha, the world is the same, a few rotten apples spoil the basket everywhere.

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The word shooting seems to come up a lot.

A friend who managed a for profit hospital in San Diego said that the city was extending the bus line to his hospital. He said they would be bankrupt in six months.

What with the turmoil in Egypt taking everyone's attention off of local events, it seemed that we have had a lot of violence here in Houston over the last few days.

A young high school coach died from the beating he received in a parking lot of a restaurant. So much for your life not being in danger, if someone doesn't pull a gun. His assailant was 52, almost twenty years older.

A 12 year old shot and killed his friend "to scare him" with an unloaded shotgun. At least they didn't say it accidentally went off. Guns were not unloaded and were unsecured after a hunting trip. I think Oregon gets the blame for this, not sure why it made the Houston paper.

Young couple was shot parked in the drive way of her home, man just came up to the window and started shooting. They survived.

Mom and her daughter were robbed at gun point at 1 pm in their driveway in Sugarland or near Dairy Ashford depending on which location is correct. They were unharmed physically.

Security guard was shot in the head and died at a sports bar North of the Sam Houston tollway. Hey isn't it illegal to have a gun in a bar. Maybe they didn't post the sign.

And the most disturbing at least for me was the robbery of the bank in the Randall's near Voss and San Felipe by three men carrying shotguns.
This was a few days ago. Seems the robbers have noticed the effectiveness of shotguns against their kind in recent weeks and so they have upgraded.
I guess everyone's argument between whether a 380 is effective enough or the superiority of the 45 kind of goes away when three men come to rob you armed with shotguns.

My home gun is about to get upgraded.