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slackmaster

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10. It's clearly a result of misleading vividness in media coverage of selected violent crimes
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 04:45 PM
Feb 2013

If people worried about things in proportion to the actual risk they posed, they would worry a lot more about motor vehicle accidents, poisoning, and slip/fall injuries than they do about crime.

People are FAR more likely to die of cancer than to be murdered; and terrorist attacks are so rare that worrying about them at all makes no sense.

I am not comfortable in movie theaters & it IS difficult to put out of my mind. nt patrice Feb 2013 #1
A quick quiz Bay Boy Feb 2013 #3
I went to see THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in a theater and thought nothing about it derby378 Feb 2013 #7
i love the gun nuts telling us how THEY WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR!!1 frylock Feb 2013 #37
And of course, you're an expert on what MY personal life is, right? derby378 Feb 2013 #41
you didn't have to use your AK? frylock Feb 2013 #42
I'm the same way too LeftInTX Feb 2013 #5
Seems to be a common response Bay Boy Feb 2013 #26
I'm not comfortable in movie theaters either Smilo Feb 2013 #36
They worry about gun violence and yet... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #2
Links please Kingofalldems Feb 2013 #4
I'm too lazy for that... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #17
Any chance roxy1234 Feb 2013 #44
Serious!?! Bay Boy Feb 2013 #45
Ah never thought of looking there roxy1234 Feb 2013 #47
For some of us, it is simply a matter of freedom of association. Why would others carry guns unless patrice Feb 2013 #8
Or: Bay Boy Feb 2013 #16
You just proved my point: You think GUNS are the same as FIRE EXTINGUISHERS so YOU ARE DANGEROUS. patrice Feb 2013 #19
Thank you for letting me know that... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #22
You're the one who said they should be regarded as enough alike that there is no need to treat them patrice Feb 2013 #23
BTW, do you conceal your seat-belt, your fire-extinguisher? Why not? nt patrice Feb 2013 #24
If guns were the same as seat-belts why are there any guns at all, why don't you just carry a patrice Feb 2013 #20
Echoing my questions back to me only shows you don't have any original questions of your own AND patrice Feb 2013 #21
are you fucking shitting me?! frylock Feb 2013 #38
LOL Carrying concealed Bay Boy Feb 2013 #39
are you grinding up bullets and snorting the lead? frylock Feb 2013 #40
It's not the same thing. People are worried they will upaloopa Feb 2013 #12
Hello? Hello? WHAT ARE GUNS USED FOR? Q. Why are people carrying them everywhere? A. Danger. patrice Feb 2013 #18
I carry for the potential of danger Bay Boy Feb 2013 #25
But there are differences in the functions of those three objects in response to danger. It isn't patrice Feb 2013 #27
You're not going to get your way on this, patrice. There will always be a possibility that somone... slackmaster Feb 2013 #29
Say that sort of thing to the kid who was shot outside of some club on the east side of my city patrice Feb 2013 #32
I'll take a wild guess that the kid wasn't shot by someone who was carrying a gun legally slackmaster Feb 2013 #33
You may know more about those probabilities, but PLEASE consider that not much of that matters patrice Feb 2013 #34
Some "tipping point" derby378 Feb 2013 #6
Americans are not very good at math, and they stink at probabilities, so this isn't jtuck004 Feb 2013 #9
It's not just Americans. Humans in general are not very good at understanding probability. slackmaster Feb 2013 #11
Tru dat. Not entirely bad, has to do with stuff deep in our brain that protects us from jtuck004 Feb 2013 #13
One of my friends from undergraduate days now has a PhD in Epidemiology. He has a very different... slackmaster Feb 2013 #14
That's interesting. jtuck004 Feb 2013 #15
I need to find my copy of Dan Gardner's "Risk" again now. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #35
It's clearly a result of misleading vividness in media coverage of selected violent crimes slackmaster Feb 2013 #10
just one thing. unemployed people left out of the equation. not counted. robinlynne Feb 2013 #28
It wouldn't make sense to include unemployed people in the survey... slackmaster Feb 2013 #30
actually you just dont know how terrifying it is. much higher on my fear scale. robinlynne Feb 2013 #43
Sorry if that seemed insensitive, robinlynne. I have been laid off numerous times, and dead broke slackmaster Feb 2013 #46
Of course. If one is shot dead, losing their job is the last thing on their mind graham4anything Feb 2013 #31
Do you realize that many "gun nuts" worry about being the victim of gun violence ... spin Feb 2013 #48
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