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seektravelinfo wrote:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5116410/
The Tower is an excellent documentary about the Austin, TX clock tower massacre.
Within the past two weeks there have been two mass shootings in America and nary a peep on the BFC about it, just the same old “good guy with a gun” blah blah blah. The brave and savvy man who killed Charles Whitman was a trained law enforcement officer and he was doing his job.
seektravelinfo wrote:It’s pretty much a given now that any one of us could catch a bullet while picking up light bulbs at Home Depot, or shopping for groceries, or attending a concert or ball game, while pumping gas, enjoying a street festival, riding the subway, worshipping in a church or a mosque or a synagogue …. anywhere. It’s a given that some of our children and grandchildren will be gunned down in their school classrooms.
This is not the pursuit of happiness.
It’s too easy to get guns and there are too fucking many of them.
Tarkan wrote:seektravelinfo wrote:It’s pretty much a given now that any one of us could catch a bullet while picking up light bulbs at Home Depot, or shopping for groceries, or attending a concert or ball game, while pumping gas, enjoying a street festival, riding the subway, worshipping in a church or a mosque or a synagogue …. anywhere. It’s a given that some of our children and grandchildren will be gunned down in their school classrooms.
This is not the pursuit of happiness.
It’s too easy to get guns and there are too fucking many of them.
The white homicide rate pre-Covid was 1.7 per 100k. Post George Floyd and Covid and it’s around 2.0 per 100k. So, the average white person is about 6.5x more likely to die in an automobile accident than catch a bullet. A white female is about 40% as likely as a white male to be the victim of homicide. Drunk drivers are twice as likely to kill the average white person as someone armed with a gun. Heart disease kills 200 per 100k.
Most cops never even fire their guns in anger but you are worried about getting gunned down. Seems a bit irrational, no?
ROB wrote:Automobiles: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Drunk Drivers: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Heart Disease: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
This isn't hard.
Kurt wrote:Beto O'Rourke was declared to be "Out of Line" today.
As much as I dislike MTG and Lauren Boebert (sp?) I think the example they set for heckling a president at the State of the Union speech is a good one.
Even though I hate them.
Beto did the right thing too.
ROB wrote:Automobiles: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Drunk Drivers: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Heart Disease: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
This isn't hard.
Kurt wrote:Tarkan wrote:seektravelinfo wrote:It’s pretty much a given now that any one of us could catch a bullet while picking up light bulbs at Home Depot, or shopping for groceries, or attending a concert or ball game, while pumping gas, enjoying a street festival, riding the subway, worshipping in a church or a mosque or a synagogue …. anywhere. It’s a given that some of our children and grandchildren will be gunned down in their school classrooms.
This is not the pursuit of happiness.
It’s too easy to get guns and there are too fucking many of them.
The white homicide rate pre-Covid was 1.7 per 100k. Post George Floyd and Covid and it’s around 2.0 per 100k. So, the average white person is about 6.5x more likely to die in an automobile accident than catch a bullet. A white female is about 40% as likely as a white male to be the victim of homicide. Drunk drivers are twice as likely to kill the average white person as someone armed with a gun. Heart disease kills 200 per 100k.
Most cops never even fire their guns in anger but you are worried about getting gunned down. Seems a bit irrational, no?
How many times have you been shot, shot at or had a gun pulled on you in the USA?
I have been shot at once (Waterloo Iowa, 1989) and had a gun pulled on me three times. One by a criminal robbing me and twice by property owners who thought i had tresspassed earlier.
Anyone around 54 years old who does not live in the USA how many times have you been shot, shot at or had a gun pulled on yiu?
Tarkan wrote:ROB wrote:Automobiles: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Drunk Drivers: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
Heart Disease: Potential threat actively managed by society, laws and orgs.
This isn't hard.
What makes you think guns aren't actively managed by society, laws, and organizations. I guarantee you we have more gun control laws on the books than we have heart disease laws.
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