I see no reason to carry a weapon. If I got a job in a part of town I didn't want to work - I wouldn't take the job. I heard something once (probably in a bad movie) that stuck: One tough guy to another, "you better file that sight off the front of that gun, cuz when they take it away from you and shove it up your a--, it won't hurt so much". Before I moved to TN, I worked for Los Angeles County, and part of my job was inspecting Head Start facilities. All of them are typically in the "bad" parts of town. Many of them are in housing projects, and in the inner city. L.A. County had sev