I like Texas. My wife and I just spent three months living in Eagle Pass as she was on a special work assignment at Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center. Her work there finished just before Christmas and we miss the area. We never did cross into Mexico. No regrets about that. If we ever sold our home in Kentucky, the Rio Grande Valley suits us fine. Well, the Grand Strand rates first, but South Texas is awesome. The report of distant gunfire at night reminds me of childhood in Appalachia.
So Much for "Live Free or Die"
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The only time I have ever heard gunfire at night, outside of basic training, was when we went coon hunting.
We had almost no crime where I grew up. Detroit did, we had little.
We had a staggering amount of gun-related deaths in my home county (Pike County,KY) in the 1960's and 70's. Unbelievable, off-the-charts kinda numbers. It was assumed every male over the age of sixteen had a gun on his person or in his vehicle. The slightest perceived offense could result in gunfire. I remember getting my first handgun around age seventeen. I needed the gun to go courting a girlfriend in neighboring Elkhorn City. The teenage guys in Elkhorn City routinely stopped the cars of Feds Creekers (me) who dared come woo their women. My father expressly forbid me to cross the county line into neighboring West Virginia. It was much worse over there.
That is too bad. I am happy to have missed that sort of stupidity. The first gun I bought was when I was 14. A Remington .22 pump rifle. I just road my bike down to the hardware store, plopped down the money I had worked hard and saved for, and then road home.
I have a wonderful childhood and youth.