(May 9, 2023 at 10:25 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(May 9, 2023 at 4:14 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: AWTY brought up anecdotal evidence, on a forum where what's expected or us is more than simply anecdotes.Bold mine...
Now she's going around posting about how no one should feel unsafe at a mall. Well, guess what bud? They are safe at the mall. Safe as all fuck. Black men are more likely to get struck by lightning than killed by police, and you are probably more likely to get struck by lightning twice than get shot in a mall shooting. So, that tells you how much AWTY's anecdote is worth. As much as I paid for it. Now, let's keep our priorities straight here. NONE of us are dying in mall shootings. It's not happening.
But, some of us may die, driving on the road. And Helios refused to answer my thought experiment for a reason (where prohibition of alcohol is assured to be successful in an alt universe). Because he wouldn't want to ban alcohol, but at the same time, Helios is too embarrassed to tell the forum that he'd choose alcohol over thousands of innocent lives.
Why then, are people local to me getting ready to bury family members who were shot and killed at an area mall?
You are a troll...we've known it a long time. You don't have to keep proving it over and over.
How many people die in mall shootings per year in the US? How many people get struck by lightning twice? How many get struck by lightning thrice? How many Floridians get bit by sharks per year?
The issue is, you made it about the mall, and you selfishly and anecdotaly (something we should be above at he forum) made your argument about your own family getting bit by sharks (rare like mall shootings) and you made claims about no one being safe in a mall. If you had left out the mall part and you just wanted to talk about guns, you'd be fine. But instead, now you just sound like someone who's shown up to the beach and is yelling at the top of their lungs, "close to beach, I have an intuition that a shark may be on its way."
