Where I am, the rival drug dealers ARE the target ranges. LOL!!! As I tell people, if you are not involved in the vice lifestyle, you are not in danger. You won't see me out selling or buying drugs where I am a target for a rip. You won't see me breaking into houses, carjacking... That is a territory I have never stepped into. Though, on your 28 acres of woods the rules are different than in a city of 200,000. Where I am EVERYWHERE would refuse you service if you didn't wear a mask. There are actually plainclothes members of law enforcement circulating who will escort you out if you make a scene when asked to make up, and unless you have a health department exemption, you are going to wear a mask if you like it or not. Billy, who I refer to only because it's his thread, lives in a place with 6 million in his metro area. There are not enough people on the law enforcement side to get involved at that level. They are busy working homicides. Here, my city of 200,000, while big to some, is part of that metro area, lumped in with Cleveland. This county I am in is taking this very seriously because should there be a sharp increase in cases, the hospitals are full. As far as your take on masks, once again, nobody ever said they prevented anything. They just corral exhausted air.

We had an incident here early last week where a guy in a store was told to mask up and he gave the young girl a ration of crap, pretty much just plain bullying her. Well, her boyfriend happened to be there. He and his pal dragged the guy outside and beat him senseless. Nearly killed him. And they were not apprehended because by the time the guy came to and called police, they were gone. And of course, nobody saw or knew anything. That kind of confrontation is a weekly thing here. And everyone of the people who ended up a bleeding pile on the sidewalk thought they were tough guys. Remember, somebody is always going to be tougher.

I went into a local music store here and there was some "tough guy" at the front desk who refused to wear a mask IN a business that demands that the customers do. There apparently was some amount of public backlash directed at the owner and, yada yada yada, he doesn't work there anymore.

Last edited by eddie1261; 03/23/21 09:00 AM.