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tornadoslackssHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:39am
I'm leery of the mental status and gun ownership of people in general. My friends and I were at a neighborhood bar just chit chatting when this older dude (maybe 50s) started sidebarring his way in. He seemed harmless, knew the servers by name, was just joking around. About an hour in, he started showing us his security system views from his house (someone had brought up neighborhood break-ins) and then casually admitted to owning ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY GUNS. Yep, 150. Said he keeps them all over, under his recliner, by the back door, under his bed, next to his bed. Good Lord, this druncle in his khakis, polo shirt and windbreaker is armed to the teeth. A couple more beers in, he started talking about Muslims and ghetto thugs. Ugh. 150 guns, it blew our minds.
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  Poodletimetornadoslackss
  6/15/16 10:47am
  Oh, Lord. That’s not good.
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  benjaminallovertornadoslackss
  6/15/16 10:50am
  Fear of terrorism may be irrational, but fear of gun violence is not, especially for particular demographics; 50% of all deaths for black males between 14 and 24, for instance. It would be irrational not to fear that, if you are that gender, age, and race.
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pre-emptive sighHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:19am
The chances a person will be killed by an asteroid are 1 in 200,000
The chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are about 1 in 20 million

Why are we spending billions fighting terrorism when we should be spending trillions on space lasers?
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  the johnpre-emptive sigh
  6/15/16 10:23am
  Get Bruce Willis on the line, stat.
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  ReburnsABurningReturnspre-emptive sigh
  6/15/16 10:33am
  I do agree with the general premise of Hamilton’s article, but a few things to think about.
  
  The attack last weekend alone makes that terrorist attack number about 3 times more likely to kill you than those numbers would suggest. It is still a very small number though.
  
  Also worth pointing out that the asteroid attack thing is the odds that literally everyone dies in a catastrophic asteroid strike. This is an immutable reality that, if it were to come to pass, no one could likely do anything about. Why worry about things that can’t be controlled and that would cause literally everyone to fucking die?
  
  Terrorism on the other hand is a much smaller thing to deal with, and can possibly be prevented. The question of resource expenditure is one of both risk and whether or not money spent will actually matter.
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djdeejayHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:13am
How are people more concerned about terrorism when people are driving around with their face in their phones?
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  KelleysHerodjdeejay
  6/15/16 10:23am
  Main reason I sold my motorcycle. Don’t need a 17y.o girl to paralyze me while snapping some bullshit
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  Ihpsdmdjdeejay
  6/15/16 10:27am
  There’s a lot of stupid people in this country:
  
  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/253515-poll-43-percent-of-republicans-believe-obama-is-a-muslim
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Skipping along to our shared destructionHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:45am
Last I heard the best thing we can do is go about our business and day-to-day and to go shopping at the mall. Has there been an update from that nice developmentally-challenged boy they put on the TeeVee since then?
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  PoodletimeSkipping along to our shared destruction
  6/15/16 10:49am
  Well, we’ve exchanged the nice-but-not-real bright boy with the rally creepy friend for a much nicer guy who spends all of his time fighting fires.I think he’s been too busy to give new instructions....
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  Lex Luthor's Saintly TwinSkipping along to our shared destruction
  6/15/16 11:10am
  Yes. He’s taken up painting while bathing. It’s odd, but he’s actually marginally talented.
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hardcöre umlautHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 11:14am
I’m not worried about terrorism. At least, I’m not worried about a coordinated attack by ISIS/AQ/etc. on American soil.

But gun violence? Fuck yes, I’m worried. I think about it whenever I’m in a large crowd. I think about it when I go to the movies, or my workplace (a college campus), or downtown on a Friday night. I’ve gotten to a place where I can live with it, where I can tell myself there is nothing more to do and if it’s my time to go, well, that’s it. But it’s still fucking terrifying to most Americans, and I don’t think it’s something to make light of.
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  lJN9yQQDBepFihardcöre umlaut
  6/15/16 11:23am
  In case it helps, gun violence has PLUNGED 50% over the past 20 years.
  
  Despite what Gawker would have you believe, you are more safe now than you have ever been.
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  hardcöre umlautlJN9yQQDBepFi
  6/15/16 11:28am
  It has plunged nationwide, but not in my city.
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areyouforreal223Hamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:15am
Yup. Terrorism is just a sideshow. Well, not for the 49 people who just got blown away for daring to go a club, but for the rest of us.
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  20 Shades of Grey including Porpoiseareyouforreal223
  6/15/16 10:34am
  Yes. Its a sideshow in that the majority of us should not change our lives or be in fear from terrorism, or falling off ladders, or being eaten by sharks, etc.
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  SAtown-Heroareyouforreal223
  6/15/16 10:58am
  That’s the point. How many people in Orlando went out that night? How many people in America went out that night? 49 is a drop in the bucket overall.
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Tom Hanks' Character From The 'BurbsHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:20am
And:

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/23/976…
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  caekislove-caekingitupTom Hanks' Character From The 'Burbs
  6/15/16 10:43am
  If you go to the source document, you’ll see that they’ve cherry picked random shootings (many of which only had a single victim - some of which hardly qualify as “terrorism”) and then only compared number of “attacks” vs number of dead, which still didn’t fit the narrative they were going for.
  
  http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/dea…
  
  Obviously, America has a problem with both Islamic terrorists and Right-wing terrorists, but fudging the numbers like that is dishonest and counter-productive.
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  Tom Hanks' Character From The 'Burbscaekislove-caekingitup
  6/15/16 10:55am
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/non-muslims-ca…
  
  https://www.splcenter.org/20100126/terro…
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/pol…
  
  http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/01/…
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BobbySeriousHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:17am
It’s serves as a wonderful distraction from the real domestic/global terrorists....

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  KomradKickassBobbySerious
  6/15/16 10:33am
  Fucking bottled water.
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  PoodletimeBobbySerious
  6/15/16 10:45am
  Got to agree, Bobby. Doesn’t really matter which guys in expensive suits it is: World Bank, G7, Climate Accords representatives, NATO, Whatevs.
  
  They kill way, way, way more people every year than terrorism.
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PeteRRHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 11:45am
Although the majority of American say they’re worried about Climate Change, we are also travelling and buying property in potential areas of flooding. Deep down, we know that Climate Change is a sideshow.
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  Jeb! & The HologramsPeteRR
  6/15/16 12:12pm
  I think that’s more a “Boca can be sent beneath the waves in 2050 as long as I can die there in 2049" thing.
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PopChipsHamilton Nolan
6/15/16 10:43am
I don’t worry about being a victim of terrorism. But I do need a Xanax every time I get on an airplane.
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