What was left after an afternoon at the range, it's been too long.And yes, believe it or not, there are 2 nice new gun ranges, within 5 miles of my Cook Country Chicago house.
Times - they are a changin'.
And for those of you who read the news, the many hundreds of people shot in Chicago each year, are NOT folks like me. I live within 20 miles of downtown. There has only been one shooting in my village in its history, and it was a gang member that shot an LEO who had just testified against him on something that went down in the city.
With rare exception, the shootings are all black on black, or black/latino under age 30 gang shootings which of course the "Black Lives Matter" people totally ignore. Just like they were totally silent on the A-student grade school boy burnt alive because he wouldn't join a gang, or the 9-year-old fatally shot in the face in retaliation for his gangbanger father's activities, or the young black female college student shot in the head in crossfire in a black gang shootout as she came home late-night from her full-time job after classes.
Total crickets on the BLM groups on these innocent young souls while they protest an LEO who shoots someone filmed on TV news aiming a gun at their head and those of the citizens around them in a busy shopping area after a road rage incident (something they had felony charges against them for in another state, and oh, the firearm was illegal).
Stay safe out there.
In my opinion the box on the right is empty and the one on the left is Almost empty....can never have too much ammo :D
ReplyDeleteIf you remove the criminal-on-criminal violence from the crime statistics, it's positively pacifistic out there. Glad to see that you found somewhere close to home for shooting.
ReplyDeleteOur little Village is pretty quiet, I'm totally comfortable traveling around on my own on foot or in the car. It's a Polish/Irish neighborhood and crime is only the occasional car contents or garage theft when the doors are left unlocked. We're surrounded on 3 sides by major city park which isolates and we're not on a train route that connects "gangland". That helps. I know what parts of the city NOT to drive through though.
DeleteThe 31 homicides in the city of Anchorage are troubling, but the talking heads on the local media find it far too easy to ignore the who & why. Meanwhile, we're concentrating on teaching my wife how to safely use her new S&W M&P Shield.
ReplyDeleteI love my M & P. It was the first striker fired piece I owned but it has enough trigger pull it's not going to go bang unless I want it to. Nice choice!
DeleteAnd the 14 and 16 year old girls shot over Christmas because of their dad's gang affiliation... Sad, in so many ways, yet ignored. Chiraq is now over 4200 shot and over 700 dead this year alone! Where does it end? Range time = proficiency, which you will hopefully NOT need. Stay safe yourself!
ReplyDeleteThere is very little crime in my Village, all Polish/Irish, no gang activity anywhere within 15 miles. But there are pockets of the city you don't want to get anywhere near and we do NOT go downtown, for anything.
DeleteYep, one of the MANY reasons I stay out of ORD at all costs...
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