Reply #65: fake sense of omniscience?

[iverglas]

As compared to, say, you, who apparently has perfect knowledge of what goes on where I am?

I CAN know that there are no firearms that I can't see in my vicinity when I go out in public, because I actually can trust the vast majority of the other inhabitants of my community not to be assholes. I am not certain that the drug dealing pimps who lived three doors down from me for a couple of years didn't have firearms on their premises, although I do doubt it. But I'm really very sure that when they were hanging out on the streetcorner doing what they did, they were not equipped with firearms. They really just were not that utterly stupid.

Nor is the vast majority of the inhabitants of my community, who, besides having precisely no desire to festoon themselves with firearms when they step out their front door, are well aware that doing so is illegal and they would be in a great big world of shit if they were caught.

Of course, if I frequented the nightclub scene in Toronto, say, I couldn't be nearly as sure. One good reason not to. I don't.

Who knows, maybe one of the hundreds of times I have been at the mall or the grocery store, there was a punk somewhere in my air space with a pistol in his pants. That's why I put that 1 at the end of all those 0s.

But hey, you keep telling me what I know and don't know. It's amusing, if nothing else.