TexasCHLforum.com

govnor wrote:Most people that live in nice neighborhoods don't own guns or even think about someone breaking in.

I wouldn't say that most don't own guns. I know many people that own guns and have no clue where they are, or they keep them unloaded.

I also know sooooooooooo many people that don't lock their doors. (When visiting, I get up and lock them.) Locking doors is a simple, basic thing that can buy the homeowner a little extra time in a home invasion.
If they walk right in your house, it's too late unless you're wearing the gun. If they have to bust in, you've got a few seconds to grab a gun (and it better be loaded).

govnor wrote:I doubt they're prowling around their own neighborhood though. If you look at most of their pictures online you could probably stomp them like a gnat. They are usually wusses, the people who do that type of thing. Ugly too.

Look a few more up on that family watchdog site. They don't always look how you think they'd look. Yeah, some are nasty. We actually recognized one from our former church, and he's a nice guy to talk to and wouldn't have otherwise set off my freak radar.

Several of the men on that website look like professionals, and appear very clean.

Remember that certain types of sex offenders (typically the most violent) are the most brazen. Anger rapists will violently grab women out of parking lots during daylight hours. Several years ago, a little five-year-old named Samantha Runnion was snatched from her front yard while she was playing with a friend. The guy grabbed her and drove off before her friend could get the grandmother out of the house to get a look at the car. Her body was found on a road, and she had suffered some terrible things before she died.

seamusTX wrote:For every registered (convicted) sex offender, there are half a dozen who haven't been caught or escaped conviction.

- Jim

Those are the ones that have always concerned me. But I am appreciative of the fact that I can easily look up the convicted ones.

Dh & I just decided not to buy an acre of property not far from us, and one of the contributing factors was that the known sex offenders in the area would have to use that particular road to get home.