| Brant | A book of First Class stamps <a href=" http://www.galmet.pl/szybka-pozyczka-online-24h.pdf#absurd ">udziele prywatnej pozyczki pod weksel</a> I'm on my own in my apartment. And I wanted to arm myself.' Despite never having previously experienced a burglary or incident in which she wished she had been carrying a gun, or known a close friend or family member who had, Bigelow paid $1,500 earlier this year for a 20in black Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle, which she now keeps under her bed. 'If intruders take a look at this gun,' she said, 'they're going to think, "Oh my gosh - I don't want to mess with this girl."' She dismissed suggestions that she might be better offwith a pistol or a shotgun. 'If multiple intruders come in - and in big cities, gangs have become a huge issue - that's a pack right there,' she said. 'What are you supposed to do if they enter your home and try to commit a crime on you?' As in much of the US, crime has declined sharply in Chantilly and the surrounding county of Fairfax over recent years, according to the local police department. Figures released last year said the annual number of murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries and car thefts was at its lowest since detailed records were first taken, in 1970. Back then, the county's 454,000 residents suffered about 5,000 burglaries a year. Now there are 1,020, among a population of 1.1 million. Just like in other areas of the country, however, many gun-owners maintain that they need to guard themselves, their homes and their families ever-more heavily against a rising tide of criminality. |
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