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To: TimF who wrote (107927)	4/5/2005 5:44:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

I would bet that any recent drop in crime rates in Alexandria is due to the housing market forcing lower income people out of the city. And the increase in security post 9/11. Also, crack cocaine seems to have lost its cachet, or at least I don't read about that anymore. Nor carjackings, knock wood. Virginia has always been a great place for gunowners, very 2nd Amendment-friendly. Lots of hunters, lots of people in the military and retired military. NRA headquarters is in Fairfax, which is contiguous to Alexandria. There are big gun shows here and elsewhere in Virginia on a regular basis. Some of the local parks have firing ranges and places you can shoot skeet. I know Alexandria tried to fight the concealed-carry laws. Judge Swersky, who was formerly chief judge of the Circuit Court, got in trouble with the General Assembly for trying to make it harder to get the permit than the law required, and retired when he came up for reappointment, which I doubt was a coincidence.