Reply #12: lordy [View All]

[iverglas]

I haven't seen a single firearm in my neighborhood.

Neither have I in mine.

I also haven't seen an albino Manx cat. Doesn't mean there aren't any, or that other people haven't seen them in their neighbourhoods.


How many people did your neighbor kill before he was removed from society?

Gosh, neat trick there. Too bad it didn't work.

If he'd killed someone, he would likely have ended up in those fine statistics. Since he didn't -- but HE DID do illegal and despicable things with his firearm -- he isn't there.

As it happened, he finally died of some alcohol-related ailment, and his abused wife was finally able to get a life.

(It was the 50s in working-class suburbia. There were no shelters for isolated abused women, no one in the neighbourhood knew about the abuse until after he died, and people didn't think such things happened next door, or talk about them if they suspected, back in those days.)