Surf n Turf
08-23-2008, 19:43
Could get interesting – and maybe start a trend?
SnT
Locked and loaded" community
“Hollywood, Fla. - Leaders of a crime-plagued neighborhood near downtown are tired of talk and task forces. Instead, they're taking up arms and preparing to become a "lock and loaded" community. A number of residents have already signed up for courses at the 911 Store in Hollywood, a weapons shop and training center. The group has also been in contact with the Texas-based Second Amendment Sisters to teach them about gun laws.
"It is unfortunate, but it really has come down to this," said the association's president, Jack David, whose neighborhood is surrounded by cheap motels, slum apartment buildings and a large cluster of social service agencies.
Then group leaders reiterated a controversial demand to combine all the area's agencies — including the COSAC Foundation homeless shelter, several drug rehab centers and a soup kitchen — into a locked compound near the edge of the neighborhood. But city and police officials have rejected the notion of stopping people from walking around the neighborhood and forming a walled-in complex.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbroyal0823sbaug23,0,4867186.story
SnT
Locked and loaded" community
“Hollywood, Fla. - Leaders of a crime-plagued neighborhood near downtown are tired of talk and task forces. Instead, they're taking up arms and preparing to become a "lock and loaded" community. A number of residents have already signed up for courses at the 911 Store in Hollywood, a weapons shop and training center. The group has also been in contact with the Texas-based Second Amendment Sisters to teach them about gun laws.
"It is unfortunate, but it really has come down to this," said the association's president, Jack David, whose neighborhood is surrounded by cheap motels, slum apartment buildings and a large cluster of social service agencies.
Then group leaders reiterated a controversial demand to combine all the area's agencies — including the COSAC Foundation homeless shelter, several drug rehab centers and a soup kitchen — into a locked compound near the edge of the neighborhood. But city and police officials have rejected the notion of stopping people from walking around the neighborhood and forming a walled-in complex.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbroyal0823sbaug23,0,4867186.story