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In reply to the discussion: Listing names of gun owners vs journalists & why it matters [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)1) I wonder about the point you want to make with the generalities in your first sentence. Boil it down and it's just a variant of the freeper "Latte Liberal" smear. Now your normal perch in the gungeon must be shielding you from the real DU because you've missed a constant stream of posts in GD as DU'ers describe their neighborhoods and lives. I find it the main reason to stay here -- these people are interesting. I will simply say that what I read from them directly contradicts your main assertion.
2) Mass shootings are now the events that pass the threshold of sensitivity we have left after a diet of death day after day after day for years. Listening to the Chicago news every night they still cover each and every murder but in a 90 second segment that sounds like an auction in its verbal cadence. But that's the way the NRA likes it and so that's what we're used to now.
3) I think you're a fool for repeatedly stating you understand the dangers quite well. I learned one rule of thumb from my Dad's old highway trooper pal that's NEVER led me wrong. With anything lethal and high risk (guns, alcohol, motorcycles, drugs) the moment a person starts talking like they know it all just realize that you'll be reading about them in the news eventually. Without the proper respect for the possibility that things can spiral out of your control, you're overconfident and a danger to those around you.