1/3 of Americans avoid places where they think there might be a mass shooting.
Reading their list I realized that I've been avoiding the same places.
I simply don't like being in crowds.
I also noticed that many of the events listed are also, normally, gun-free zones.
I avoid those too.
Still, getting shot at (let alone hit or killed) in a mass shooting is so unlikely as to be statistical noise on the big list of things that killed you.
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I generally try to avoid places that post 30.06 or otherwise are designated victim areas. But I really don't worry about mass shootings as much as I worry about crossing the street downtown. The Cap Metro bus drivers are crazy mofos.
ReplyDeleteHey Angus;
ReplyDeleteI avoid places where crowds congregate partially because of possibility of violence and I flat out don't like crowds and it don't help that a lot of places are "Gun free Zones". I am sure that I miss out on some social events but I won't change.
I don't care much for crowds. Mass shootings don't really even make my radar, as I know they are rare. I worry more about pickpockets, disease carriers (including cold and flu), and body odor.
ReplyDeleteIf I am going to be accosted by anyone, it would more likely be in the parking lot on the way to or from my vehicle.
While I tend to not frequent most of these places myself, it's not because of fear. I just simply don't have any desire to go to any of those places more than 2 or 3 times a year. The only exception would be school and I am only there to see my kids or their teachers.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have noticed lately is the exceptionally small sample sizes that pollsters are using to represent the US as a whole. In the article linked, 2,017 respondents is roughly 0.000006% of the population, and they extrapolate that out to be 1/3 of 300,000,000+ Americans.
You are much more at risk of death from a heart attack from pooping (really, pooping, not just constipation...) than any non-self-inflicted firearm death.
ReplyDeleteYou see, there's this nerve that runs up the pooper that somehow effects your heart.
And Epstein didn't kill himself.