Obviously I have many, however I don’t have a personal sidearm, don’t feel like I need one. I have lived in this country for longer than I did in England and have never felt even the remotest threat to my personal safety.
Any night out in any town in England would always have more threat of physical violence than anything even close here. You have to realize too, why would you fuck with someone who’d just shoot you anyways ?
The flip side to that is I've been in Yanksville for 11 years and I do too feel safe here - yet I dont have a gun!
That's not a criticism of you or anyone else that does. Maybe everyone assumes I have one too and leaves me alone!
And yes.... during my visits back home, walking through Piccadilly at night waiting for the last bus home to Moston I feel very vunerable......
The funny thing is I had my first experience of road rage today!
I was leaving a supermarket car park (parking lot for my Yankee friends) and rather than go all the way to the end of the parking lane, and back up another one, I cut across lanes and ended up going the ''wrong way'' up the lane. No big deal.... a car came towards me so I pulled over to the right..... and he pulls over to his left and stops in front of me. He shouts ''you are going the wrong way!''
I hold my hands up and admit that and suggest he simply goes around me (plenty of room) but he yells at me, telling me to turn around and go the right way.
I wind my window down and signal him to go round me and he yells more that I should turn around and go back..... now cars behind him are overtaking him and passing me by with ease.... I call to him to follow suit..... he starts blowing his horn and insisting I turn back. I am laughing at him shouting ''call the police I've broken the law'' and he is going mad!
At that point a car to my right moved out of the parking bay and a bloke next to the now empty space comes and suggests I simply turn into that empty space and follow through to the next lane, which I did....
I thanked the bloke, he stopped me and said I need to be careful.... these road ragers carry guns.... That struck me hard. In my amusement I hadn't considered that at all.......
All that shit over driving down a supermarket car park lane the wrong way lol