That was literally five doors down from me. I thought I was secure because my next door neighbors are cops and the guy down the street trains police dogs.

If you got a Ledo Pizza near you theirs is square and 10x better than Little Caesars. The only catch is they don't deliver.

Come on man, the cobbler's children have no shoes.

This is why it is good to dress as a superhero and watch over the kids in the neighbourhood. You may just get to lay a poundin' on some punk kids trying to steal from the wee folk.

Just make sure your jumper has a kevlar vest because some of those kids are packing heat!

One school shooting does not make our neighbourhoods in general any less safe. To be fair though, there *has* been more violence in Ottawa lately, but it always seems to be drug related and there's been no innocent collateral yet...

I had an interesting conversation with my 2nd cousin who is over from New Zealand. They have practically no crime and when asked about gun laws I was shocked: There is no magazine restrictions, flash supressors and sound supressors (silencers) are legal and you are allowed to shoot by spot light. In fact it's the preferred method of rabbit control! Gonna try and keep this out of P&C though Suffice it to say I sleep soundly and don't feel unsafe with my door unlocked.

Well I was asleep one day, and heard the knocking and some garbled yelling. I got dressed and ran to my backdoor. I yelled "Hang on, be out in a second!" The idea was go out back and come to the front and show him my driver's license. I was groggy, anyway opened the backdoor and this huge sheriff jumps in front of me. He completely filled it up, and he was like "OH, you going somewhere?" I stopped and kinda back pedaled yammering about how I was just going to show you my license. Of course they didn't believe me.

So after telling his partner what I was doing they both converge on me and start grilling me. I showed them my license, and while one called it in on the radio I played 20 question with the other. I even had to call my girlfriend to answer questions. I asked them if they wanted to come in and search the house. I figured hopefully they would see nothing weird or secret going on. I'm not into drugs or anything so I wasn't worried. My oldest brother though when he found out chewed me out! He is in the fbi down here. He said never let them in without a warrant cause they could plant something. I guess I was lucky cause they didn't. I think it did help cause they haven't been around since, or they haven't been around the same time that I've been home. I think they thought I or my g/f was saving mail for this guy or something.

So hopefully they want pursue a warrant though if they do I'm not worried. I rarely get in trouble.

Nah. I still live in a crap neighborhood, but I have cops all over the place and they tend to respond pretty quickly when they find out that someone was brandishing firearms within 50 feet of a Catholic school playground at EXACTLY the time that kids are making their way to homeroom. Needless to say, it was a trying morning.

I just want to know at what point those gangbangers thought it was a good idea to:

1) do a daylight home invasion
2) within 100 yards of a Catholic school
3) at 7am when kids are walking to school
4) in a neighborhood full of cops
5) five blocks away from the county police barracks
6) next door to a guy who trains police dogs for a living
7) shoot at three cops who were drawing down on them
8) while being bit in the crotch by a German Shepherd dog

Cocaine is a helluva drug.