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0 Days Since Last Shooting: Keep The Calendar At Zero

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Maybe it is coming from living in a different country for awhile but I find it stunning how many people feel the necessity of 'needing' a weapon. It makes no logical sense. There is a continuous escalation of weaponizing the populace and then when bad stuff happens we are shocked. This country is really effed up. It is like the rest of the developed world is mostly behaving like adults and we are like a big mass of unruly adolescents who have no impulse control and egg each other on, reinforce each other to do increasingly stupid and self harming things.

We say we are the greatest country but truly I am unclear why if we insist we can't provide safety for our populace
 
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Maybe it is coming from living in a different country for awhile but I find it stunning how many people feel the necessity of 'needing' a weapon. It makes no logical sense. There is a continuous escalation of weaponizing the populace and then when bad stuff happens we are shocked. This country is really effed up. It is like the rest of the developed world is mostly behaving like adults and we are like a big mass of unruly adolescents who have no impulse control and egg each other on, reinforce each other to do increasingly stupid and self harming things.

We say we are the greatest country but truly I am unclear why if we insist we can't provide safety for our populace

What's even more confusing is that the actual threats are going down. All crime is down.

Why do people feel more threatened now?

Many years ago, I had an odd interaction- when conceal and carry was allowed in national parks, people were happy. I asked why- just in case someone comes and tries something in your tent. As if that is an actual threat out there. But it was just made up in their mind that they are constantly being threatened.

Then again, many of these same people think that any homosexual man will come on to them just because. As if every women comes on to them, or that they hit on every single person they see.

People like to make stuff up to fit their narrative of life. And in this case, they are getting help from the gun industry- who are making HUGE money, especially since they can manipulate the supply of stuff, keeping guns and rounds super expensive. (hint, people- it's not as if any single part on a gun or a given round is rare or hard to make.)
 
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This may be seem strange if you're not...but it is a statistical fact that 30-40% of humanity is wired by fear.

I have a good friend who says that he has fear thoughts all the time. One time he asked me 'are you afraid that your family is going to suddenly die?'. Another that says he has no interest in going to Europe because he just knows everything will go wrong. To me these thoughts are just bizarre. They are both an enneagram type 6 loyalist.

https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-6

See near the bottom of the page for levels of health.
 
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What's even more confusing is that the actual threats are going down. All crime is down.

Why do people feel more threatened now?

Because information is reported more closely now. And people look at raw numbers, usually focusing on only a portion of the data - there were 500 assaults in City X in 1970, and now there are 600 assaults this year in the same city. Never mind that the city's population has increased 60% since then, and therefore crime rates are down.
 
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Because information is reported more closely now. And people look at raw numbers, usually focusing on only a portion of the data - there were 500 assaults in City X in 1970, and now there are 600 assaults this year in the same city. Never mind that the city's population has increased 60% since then, and therefore crime rates are down.

I don't think there is that much thought. They are told they should be scared and the world is a bad place. They believe. If you ask most of these people if they have been personally threatened or even if they know someone personally who was threatened almost all of them will say no. If you ask why they are worried most of them will say because the world is bad despite having no experience or knowing someone who has had the experience of violence
 
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@nbcwashington: Breaking: The sheriff's sergeant who was killed while responding to the mass shooting at a California bar was struck by a fellow officer's bullet. http://nbc4dc.com/qrGh2IC
 
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If this has already been posted in another thread my apologies. Apparently some MI university decided that pucks are the best way to stop mass shootings:

< joke here about how you should just stand in front of hockey net on some campuses and you won't get hit with all those pucks >

< looking at my team and all the times they shoot the puck wide >
 
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So I had to take a training at work today for how to deal with an active shooter.
I get that’s where we are, still sad.
 
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When we started the Semester the facility I am at has, as part of their orientation training about Active shooter and how to handle it as far as patient care. The consult they got from local law enforcement? Leave the patients and exit. I shake my head. I get where we are at too. And I am baffled that the 'best country in the world' can't pull their collective head out of their a55.
 
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Our training said the same. Don’t help the injured and they also warned us that law enforcement wont help injured until shooter is contained
 
Our training said the same. Don’t help the injured and they also warned us that law enforcement wont help injured until shooter is contained

Save yourselves. Let your buddies die. W.T.eff.

We've become sheep to be led to the slaughter? No wonder some think fighting back is a good idea.
 
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Save yourselves. Let your buddies die. W.T.eff.

We've become sheep to be led to the slaughter? No wonder some think fighting back is a good idea.

I ask a simpler question= why on earth do we think this is acceptable? We have outrage fatigue. Instead of society moving to fix it we have a whole subset of people getting rich on feeding us the bu11sh1t about guns being the answer. If you really stop to think about it, really think, you have to realize how totally absurd we have become. This business of being told we should have the mindset of 'this is where we are' as a way to stop folks from being resistant to acceptance, shocked, outraged, expecting different, is absurd. It blows my mind the level of acceptance this country has for the ridiculous.
 
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School shooting victim is suing the parents of her school shooter. Good. You want to own guns and you let your kids have access your insurance rates should reflect this
 
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That’s why umbrella policies ask about firearms in the House.
 
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