erotophonophilia
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It's all over the world,and honestly,no more frequent than it ever was. 24 hour media just makes us more conscious of it. Still,very sad.
I think there's been exponentially more shootings, since the CO shooting.
It's all over the world,and honestly,no more frequent than it ever was. 24 hour media just makes us more conscious of it. Still,very sad.
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It's all over the world,and honestly,no more frequent than it ever was. 24 hour media just makes us more conscious of it. Still,very sad.
It's all over the world,and honestly,no more frequent than it ever was. 24 hour media just makes us more conscious of it. Still,very sad.
I apologize. I wasn't trying to downplay it at all. I think it's incredibly sad,and happens FAR too often. My main point was,it isn't just in the U.S. It's everywhere.Source?
Sorry mate, but playing this stuff down as if it's just a simple commonality is ridiculous.
Since our government, police, and media only know how to solve problems with violence; how can they expect anything different from us.
Every movie, game, international conflict, story we tell our kids, interaction with news outlets, and dealings with authority figures revolves around violence. We have been this way for a long time, but in the modern era there doesn't seem to be any social cohesion, unless you count Facebook lol, so people just don't give a .... about how others feel.
This is just who we have become. Violence will always exist, it's just harder to kill when you have a conscience. We have been desensitizing ourselves with media and isolating ourselves from physical community.
Solution: go talk to your neighbors, take your kids to the park, get the teenagers off the computer and Xbox. In others words, be a part of your community.
You're never in so dire a need as the moment you need a gun to save your life, or even worse you've run your gun dry.
You know the problem with mass shootings in America isn't the guns, but actually the lack of guns.
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You know how there's a rule against posting any threads about the Westboro Baptists? That's awesome, and I wish we could have the same rule for American shooting massacres.
Except that is antithetical to the truth in just about every way imaginable. The potential for gun violence goes up with a higher firearm density, not down. Your post is just another in a long line of cowboy fantasists who secretly yearn for a fight. In reality, carrying or not carrying a gun has very little impact on the state of your livelihood, ignoring any changes in mannerisms due to a changed psychological state of carrying a firearm. You are NOT likely to ever be mugged, have to fight off home invaders or defend your own life. In the rare situations where these do happen it is often questionable in whether using a firearm to protect yourself is even an intelligent idea.
Mugging/robbery? The safest action is almost always to give up your property. Money is replaceable. If they have a gun pulled on you it is pure fantasy to think that you can quick-draw them and come out on top. It may happen, but the odds are against it.
Home invasion/robbery? Again, items are replaceable. It is statistically more likely that a gun will injure a family member than it will a robber, and a gun used for home protection is only doing that when you are actually home, while most robberies will take place when you aren't leaving your gun as just another thing to be stolen.
Defending your life? Sure, guns are useful. But if you are in a situation where you are actually likely to need a gun to protect yourself you would do far better to move/work in a better area.
Too often gun-advocates ignore the reality of statistics, and most never learned the first rules of self-defense: The best fight is one that never took place, and when faced with conflict know when it is worth lives on the line.
You are unlikely to have a home fire, but you have a fire extinguisher & smoke detector right?
How likely are you to fall off your bike, do you wear a helmet when riding?
What are your chances of a car accident, do you use your seat belt?
You all prolly said yes to those questions, right? Why is it smart to do those things, protecting yourself from injury and harm but dumb to own/carry/use a firearm?