How Are Things in the Mississippi Delta? (movies, calculated)

[NWS]

Originally Posted by poptones

It's been my experience that the people who talk about being worried about robberies or shootouts are the ones most likely to initiate a shootout. I've lived here 20 years and still don't have a gun in the house - don't need one. If someone comes in the house ewv4en while I am here they ain't coming in looking for me, they are coming in looking for stuff... stuff I can replace. It sucks to be violated (I have had stuff taken) but that feeling is nowhere near the feeling I would get from killing someone. I'm hopefully going to live a long life and I really don't want to carry that memory around with me the next 30 years or more... stuff just ain't worth it....

I own several guns. I've never had to use any of them and I hope I never will.
You are right Poptones I think the memory of someone dying before my eyes would hurt worse than the memory of a stolen watch and some cash.
I certainly wouldn't come on a public forum and brag about moving to another state and shooting people there I decide are criminals.
I hope the school boards of the Delta read this forum. They might avoid a gun nut on their staff.

[hivoltage]

Originally Posted by OhioUberAlles

I was wondering if folks might be so kind as to give me some basic information about how things are in the Mississippi Delta. Mainly in the way of cost of living, safety, population density, price of land, etc.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The cost of living in the delta depends on who you are. If you work own a car a house and pay taxes it will be high. The reason is because there are so many non-taxpayers (I call them Democrats) but there are several other names they go by. Take for instance Greenville ,Clarksdale ETC. Vehicle tags are very pricey due to the low ratio of NON Democrats to Democrats.If you have children you will have to send them to a private School or Academy this is another high cost. I could go on and on.

As far as Safety is concerned The crime rate is VERY high Murder ,Drugs,Carjackings, Rape (Democrats do not consider Rape a crime).That being said crime is mostly Democrat on Democrat. They will take your stuff when you are not watching it however.

The Delta does have it's charm though Good restaraunts ,fairly laid back and lots of history. If you Have any questions about any specific towns in the Delta ask me I have lived in alot of them and know the area fairly well.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by NWS

I own several guns. I've never had to use any of them and I hope I never will.
You are right Poptones I think the memory of someone dying before my eyes would hurt worse than the memory of a stolen watch and some cash.
I certainly wouldn't come on a public forum and brag about moving to another state and shooting people there I decide are criminals.
I hope the school boards of the Delta read this forum. They might avoid a gun nut on their staff.

I guess you ignored the part where I said I don't care so much about losing stuff as I do about being shot.

Maybe you ought to read the crime rates in the Delta and compare them to the crime rates in Lake County and Ashtabula County Ohio.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by hivoltage

The cost of living in the delta depends on who you are. If you work own a car a house and pay taxes it will be high. The reason is because there are so many non-taxpayers (I call them Democrats) but there are several other names they go by. Take for instance Greenville ,Clarksdale ETC. Vehicle tags are very pricey due to the low ratio of NON Democrats to Democrats.If you have children you will have to send them to a private School or Academy this is another high cost. I could go on and on.

As far as Safety is concerned The crime rate is VERY high Murder ,Drugs,Carjackings, Rape (Democrats do not consider Rape a crime).That being said crime is mostly Democrat on Democrat. They will take your stuff when you are not watching it however.

The Delta does have it's charm though Good restaraunts ,fairly laid back and lots of history. If you Have any questions about any specific towns in the Delta ask me I have lived in alot of them and know the area fairly well.

I don't have kids but I would like to at some point. I don't think raising them in the Mississippi Delta or anywhere in Mississippi, aside from the extreme Northeast corner, would ever be a good idea. I much more prefer the idea of Appalachian Ohio.


As for private schools, if I get the job, it will be with one such private school. I'm fairly sure I'll get a job in one of the private schools/academies. They want people who want to teach there, and I surely do. As I said when speaking on the phone with one gentleman who is going to help me, "I am interested in teaching in a demographically appropriate environment" and as he said "excellent."

I'm not particularly interested in teaching a classroom full of Obama supporters. I could do that in Cleveland, but then I'd also be at risk of being crippled like that one teacher who probably wasn't an Obama supporter. He tried to break up a fight between two Obama supporters when he had a desk picked up and smashed over his head/neck while also being struck with brass knuckles. He's now in a neck cast and has a half dozen other broken bones and such.

I figure if somebody's got a problem with teaching in a highly selective school, or a place where values will support Christianity, family values, and Constitutional rights (including the right for a man to defend himself, his family, his home, and his property) then I suppose they're welcome to go teach children in Jackson, Birmingham, Detroit, Cleveland, or some other such city where such values are probably more at home.

So not only do the Delta school boards have zero say in whether or not I obtain a teaching job in Mississippi, but I wouldn't even attempt to get a teaching job at a public school in Mississippi. The only people who have a say are part of a private association.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by NWS

If I don't leave the thread will you put me in an arm bar or choke me out?
Perhaps shoot me?
You really need to get out more. You need to meet people who are not exactly like you. You will learn so much. I've learned so much from you.
I'm never moving to Ohio

Hunting is but one of the reasons to own firearms, self-defense and protection of crucial freedoms/rights are others. I don't believe I owe a laundry list of reasons to anybody, let alone somebody such as yourself.


I need to meet more people who will try to rob me, assault me, etc... If it were not for firearms I would probably be dead or seriously crippled by now.

I could go on and on with stories about how I was in my own town, minding my own business, bicycling down the road, when out of nowhere four probable Obama supporters, jumped out of their car and came running up towards me, screaming about how they're going to mess me up for being "in our town" (despite the fact this is my town). Maybe they knew I wasn't going to vote for their guy?

Moderator cut: rude and racist
Some folks think it is okay to go relieve themselves in somebody else's backyard while expecting to be patted on the back for it. I am not one such person.

I've got a lot of similar stories, all of them true.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by NWS

If I don't leave the thread will you put me in an arm bar or choke me out?
Perhaps shoot me?
You really need to get out more. You need to meet people who are not exactly like you. You will learn so much. I've learned so much from you.
I'm never moving to Ohio

We already have enough Obama supporters in Ohio. I figure we can make do without one more.

Actually we really don't know how many Obama supporters we have in Ohio, since I believe there was massive voter fraud in Ohio, but that's a whole other matter.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by poptones

Look, I lived in LA. I lived over near the Silverlake area near the top of a hill. If you've ever been to LA (or Detroit, or Chicago or pretty much any major city) you'll know the temperment of a neighborhood can change in just a block or two - this side of the street is golden, that side is owned by gangs or whatever. I sometimes heard gunfire down the street from me - about three blocks away at the bottom of the hill. Not even then did I ever worry about being "in a shootout" simply because the odds are so freakishly low against that sort of thing UNLESS you're the type who walks around with a chip on his shoulder. The odds of being "in a shootout" are far lower than the odds of being hit by lightning... but if you walk around carrying a lightning rod, you can't blame the weather when you get struck.

Moderator cut: rude and provocative

I've never tried to pick a fight with folks such as gang members (or any folks for that matter), but I've had plenty of thugs either try to start trouble or try to size me up to see if I was going to be easy to roll. I've never been rolled yet, probably because they calculate it wouldn't be easy. I've found that you can go through life being as peaceful as possible, and thugs will always try to start trouble with you. They often mistake being peaceful for being weak.

The instant when they realize just how they wrong are is always deliciously hilarious. Moderator cut: explicit remarks removed

Oh dang! he be packin, let's split!" It's a nice feeling, not being attacked by two eighteen year old gang members, not being robbed by them, and not winding up in a shootout with them, simply because they never expected that their attempt to roll a fourteen year old would be met with armed resistance. I suppose there's nothing stopping anybody from walking up behind somebody else and just shooting them, having a gun won't save you then, but that doesn't mean I'm going to aimlessly wander through life, totally unarmed and helpless, counting my life to hope.

Walking through life HOPING not to be attacked has never been part of my deterrence plan. I'm glad the USA didn't simply HOPE not to be attacked by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. HOPE is never a substitute for actual deterrence and defense.

[NWS]

Originally Posted by OhioUberAlles

I went to Chicago back when I was about 14-15, and I would have been attacked by two overt gang-members (they were wearing gang clothing and flashing gang signs) had it not been for the fact I had a .38 special. ...

LOL you are just as much a "Gangsta" as they were.
You, a 14 year old, walking around the streets of Chicago carrying a conceal gun.
You claim they would have attacked you if not for the gun. So you brandished it.
Are you serious. That's a felony son.
You didn't get a concealed weapons permit at 14. You are "Gangsta"

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by NWS

LOL you are just as much a "Gangsta" as they were.
You, a 14 year old, walking around the streets of Chicago carrying a conceal gun.
You claim they would have attacked you if not for the gun. So you brandished it.
Are you serious. That's a felony son.
You didn't get a concealed weapons permit at 14. You are "Gangsta"

I never said I brandished it, I never even said I had it on me, as I didn't. It was a calculated bluff. The weapon was in a nearby vehicle. I merely made it seem I had it on me and was about to draw. There's a lot to be said for a calculated bluff. I could have gotten burnt from bluffing, but the result of doing nothing would have been a certain attack/robbery/worse.

There's nothing "gangsta" about defending yourself. Because of the sort of society we've been handed by people such as yourself, normal citizens have to defend themselves. If fourteen years old is old enough to be attacked by 18-20 year old gang members, then 14 years old is old enough to be able to defend yourself with a firearm.

[OhioUberAlles]

Originally Posted by NWS

LOL you are just as much a "Gangsta" as they were.
You, a 14 year old, walking around the streets of Chicago carrying a conceal gun.
You claim they would have attacked you if not for the gun. So you brandished it.
Are you serious. That's a felony son.
You didn't get a concealed weapons permit at 14. You are "Gangsta"

Boy, I'll thank you again not to call me son... I'm not your son.