The way it should be.

RAllen · Jan 31, 2002

TerryinMD

I THINK/w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif you mean of the folks on either coast are leftwingers ie. liberal folks and the heart land with a less dense (country) population. The heartland= conservative. Right???/w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

You threw me stating the right lives on the coasts.

Sorry if any folks do not like the seriousness of the thread. Its not up on the operational/ tractor areas and I believe this these issues are the greatest threat to the survival of our republic. Makes Usama look like a walk in the park.

Let me ask all of you country folk. How many of you feel safe leaving your home with the door unlocked. Most of us in the south, west, midwest used to do this on a regular basis.

Now, even in Montana, I would not. Too many people on meth around here.

Rick

Bird · Jan 31, 2002

Rick, I probably shouldn't broadcast it, since everyone knows where I live, but we still rarely lock the door when we go anywhere./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif We DO try to remember and lock it before we go to bed at night, and usually remember to do so./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

ronjhall · Jan 31, 2002

Bird
Do you leave any of that Cheesecake out when you do not lock the door? /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
We forget to lock the doors quite often at night. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif But when we are not home we set the alarm, lock and dead bolt the doors and set the lights auto on and off. I guess the house needs to be better protected when we are not home. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

cowboydoc · Jan 31, 2002

I'm the same way Bird. I have been lucky so far. It's just a habit I haven't gotten into. We don't even lock the doors at night. However, I do sleep with a 9mm. My Grandpa gave it to me when I left for college. He had it from WWII. Luckily it's never been fired or even pointed at anyone either but I do sleep a little better knowing it's there.

Jeff396 · Jan 31, 2002

Let me ask all of you country folk. How many of you feel safe leaving your home with the door unlocked

House unlocked....heck, I've just gotten past locking my cars when they are in the garage. Maybe it's that Detroit upbringing/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Jeff

Tom_Trees · Jan 31, 2002

key....you grew up in the country

Or in a small town . . .

And no one was going talk back to a school teacher, much less assault one, because they wouldn't hesitate to use a wooden paddle, and probably most kids were told, just as I was, "you get a whipping in school, you'll get another one
when you get home."

And I think this is the other one. Back in grade school, if we screwed off in class we got to go visit the principal. It was always three barehanded strokes across the tight of the pants . . . and then get it again from Mom when you got home . . . and again from Dad when he got home from work. And it wasn't just school. Do something really stupid at a friend's house and get local justice from his Mom - and then the two repeats when you got home.

Gave rise to thoughts., at night, while sleeping on your side, about maybe not doing that again.

Nowdays parents would sue the school and each other for doing that.

Where I grew up (Elkhart, IN, population in the 30,000 range back then) you locked the house when you weren't home but you never hesitated to answer the door if you were home; you didn't leave the keys in the car, but you didn't lock it unless you had something on the seat. And the vast majority of the police activity was speeders, the occasional drunk driver, and breaking up fights at the two bars in the poorest part of town on Thursdays, Fridays, and the first couple of days each month.

I really do think our generation benefitted from the restrained but firm use of the 'board of education' both at school and at home.

Tom

JoeR · Jan 31, 2002

I have to throw this one in... Does political correctness stifle "Free Speech"? Hmmm.... I wonder if that's why Walker's father was not described by the media as gay? Are people in the country politically correct, or more likely to "speak their mind"?

forestcreature · Feb 1, 2002

kokomo was the same way as elkhart

i lived out in the country, all parents were permitted to discipline you.

bgott · Feb 1, 2002

"ok, for more trivia - why is it illegal in most states to hunt with a crossbow?"

Why?

MJB · Feb 1, 2002

I am going to take a complete guess here and say that it is because of poaching. A crossbow would be an ideal poaching weapon with longer range and better accuracy than a bow, and much quieter than a rifle. Sound good?