I hope this sentence sets an example for any of those other extreme paranoiac gun fondlers out there who think they can kill at willl.
USA has sure become a scary place.
These incidents were comparatively rare 50 years ago.
Now they've become common place.
NRA wanted to put a gun in every American's hands and they got their wish.
Now we're seeing the results of this madness.
They're more common, but still rare Joe. There are one handful of stories about people being shot at, by homeowners, for showing up at the wrong house.
What's more common are the mass shootings while people are doing regular activities, shopping, going to an entertainment venue, school, etc.
As long as we keep treating these tragedies as a never-ending series of individual unrelated incidents instead of addressing the fundamental problem of 'Murica being ON PURPOSE a violent, warlike, paranoid society we'll never stop seeing these stories.
The rot is wide and deep and unless it's burned out at the root it's going to continue growing and poisoning everything/everyone it touches.
Then again it may already be too late and all we can do is let it run its course and hope there's enough left after the collapse on which to build something better.
'Muricans have for so long been so conditioned to xenophobia, narcissism, and greed that now they actually love being exploited and lied to. They're addicted to it and have convinced themselves that it's not only normal but a superior way of life.
Fix *that* and most of our problems would just sort themselves out with a little time.
It's just incredible that people live like that. Just pathetic and horrifying.Imagine living in the headspace where a car frightens the hell out of you. In prison, he'll learn just how stupid he was. Now, he has a lot of violence to fear.
I don't think the average ammosexual will learn a damn thing from this guy's sentence though. If they were capable of learning, they wouldn't live in fear to begin with.
I didn't realize that the possibility was always in the back of my mind until I moved to Portugal and suddenly realized I no longer had any of that unconscious fear of mass shootings. I worried about my kids when they were in school and I worried about myself and my students when I was teaching, and I worried just being in public places. Suddenly, now, gone! But I still worry about my loved ones in the US.As an American living in the United States, does that possibility come across your mind when you are shopping or just going somewhere for a public event?
I wonder how these incidents have affected Americans and their sense of their own security and safety.
Have many people started to avoid what they once took for granted?
I imagine one reason Amazon has become so big in the states is that many people would prefer to have goods delivered to their front door than risk their lives at a shopping center.
I didn't realize that the possibility was always in the back of my mind until I moved to Portugal and suddenly realized I no longer had any of that unconscious fear of mass shootings. I worried about my kids when they were in school and I worried about myself and my students when I was teaching, and I worried just being in public places. Suddenly, now, gone! But I still worry about my loved ones in the US.
People here are more likely to die at their own hand by suicide that get murdered here. And there seem to be a lot of suicides here.
Nope. It isn't America's fault.Living directly above a neighbor as maniacal and overbearing as the USA must be very stressful.
As an American living in the United States, does that possibility come across your mind when you are shopping or just going somewhere for a public event?
I wonder how these incidents have affected Americans and their sense of their own security and safety.
Have many people started to avoid what they once took for granted?
I imagine one reason Amazon has become so big in the states is that many people would prefer to have goods delivered to their front door than risk their lives at a shopping center.