(July 6, 2021 at 11:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 6, 2021 at 10:04 am)Brian37 Wrote: Before anyone goes off and claims that I am bringing up guns because they think I am trying to simply trying to bring attention to myself, just stop.
This has to do with ANY excess having to do with having a false sense of security when doing anything or handling a dangerous item.
This weekend a former NHL player was killed by fireworks. Every 4th of July there are stories of people who get injured or die or cause needless fires because they think they know what they are doing. The same can be said with drinking and driving. Humans far to often stupidly think that just because nothing happened for a period of time, nothing bad will happen ever.
I see fireworks no different than guns, or driving. All of those things require knowledge, education, and a healthy respect that you cannot treat them like toys.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/05/sport...index.html
In other words, dangerous things are dangerous. Got it.
Boru
Yes, and?
Ok, so we both agree. So the issue should not be about danger, but attitude about that danger and ignoring the danger.
ATTITUDE, is the issue. Yes, there are dangers in life. But humans far too often have selection bias and sample rate error, on top of fear of being wrong.
If JFK depended on the "no rules" mindset of the NRA as a blueprint for the Apollo program, America would not have been the first to the moon. The Apollo 13 team would have died.
Even with aviation and space flight, there is no comparison between the accidents in space travel vs the amount of daily firearm deaths every day.
Sully would not have successfully landed the plane on the Hudson, if he had the bullshit attitude of MTG or Laura Boebert.
