(August 4, 2019 at 11:06 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(August 4, 2019 at 9:51 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: In almost 65 years I have never been so afraid that I thought I needed a gun, is the USA so awful?
You're seeing the spikes, not the whole. I'm 68 and I've never been close to a mass shooting.
In the US, anyway.
(August 4, 2019 at 10:02 am)Brian37 Wrote: The problem isn't that everyone needs a gun, the problem is the industry scares everyone into feeling they need one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_unce..._and_doubt
I love you Gawdzilla, but that is still not the point.
Firearm violence is really no different than playing the lottery or going to a Vegas casino. The more people that play enough, eventually your number comes up.
Just like drunk drivers. They always make excuses for doing it because they drove 1,000s of times, when all it takes is once. Well, just this year hasn't been just once, but 250 times we've had, in just this year alone, where 4 or more people have been injured or murdered in one shooting event. 100 of our fellow citizens die every day from firearm violence.
I have not been near a mass shooting event myself. But I did live near the place where the reporter was murdered on live TV. My best friend lived just miles away from the Colorado theater shooting. I've had co workers in my life that have watch their friends die in their arms from a shooting. I had another co worker watch her cousin blow his brains out in a driveway committing suicide. And even I, when I was a kid, had my drunk dad shoot his 38 with me in the room.
