How Safe Can We Really Be in a Nation Such as This?

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'Does one man’s freedom force the rest of us to watch their country turn into a John Wayne movie?​'

That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta. Oh yeah, and he was wearing body armor. This was in March 2021, barely a week after an actual mass shooting at several massage parlors in Atlanta, in which eight people were killed. And it was only two days after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where ten people were killed.

And, oh yeah, he didn’t have a car, which is why he had lugged the guns — handguns in his jacket pockets, the rifle and shotgun in a guitar case — into the store. While he was in the men’s room, he “had taken out some of the weapons, including the rifle, to clean them after discovering that some guacamole he had bought had caused a mess inside the bag.”points out: “All but three states allow for the open carry of handguns, long guns or both, and in many there is little the police can do.

in full blossom.” So I wrote last year, pondering the endless question. “The more people there are carrying guns, especially in public places, the more dangerous it is simply to be out and about; and the more dangerous it is to be out in public, the more credibility Second Amendment aficionados have when they claim they are only safe if they’re carrying a weapon.”

That is to say, I gave myself agency. And this is what worked — the fact that I felt empowered. And I didn’t care what neighborhood I was in. The white-person mantra was: Stay out of such-and-such neighborhood . . . Cabrini-Green or whatever. You know, neighborhoods of color, a.k.a., ghettos. Don’t go there! I paid no attention to that, and the whole city became mine.by three teens in hoodies, a few blocks from my house. Life is what it is. The world is full of thorns and potholes.

 

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Civic society and the belief in the 'common good' continues to disintegrate before our eyes. I prefer to believe we want it to exist. However we are being sensitized by intellectual laziness, hyperbole, fearmongering and click bait profiteering towards persistent indecency.

Even John Wayne only ever needed a six shooter or a Winchester not a damn machine gun.

Get real, Focus on the 250,000 - 400,000 who die as a direct result of malpractice in our for profit healthcare system , another 68,000 from lack of care and the 400,000 from a legal highly addictive carcinogenic over the counter product ignored by our corrupt government . WTF CD

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