re: #283 Decatur Deb

You and I are going to die of circulatory disease, cancer, infectious disease or an accident, just like everybody else. Nutcases with guns are not a terror unless we want them to be. There is room for improvement, and over-reaction is the best way to derail it.

Most people in open shooting wars don’t die of being shot either. Just because you and I are unlikely to be shot in a mass shooting event doesn’t mean that the terror and threat of such doesn’t affect our everyday life.

Children all across this country regularly train for terror events. They are taught to not open the door for a pleading classmate and to let them die, an inversion of basic empathy that appalls me every time I think about it. Mass shootings don’t just happen in schools or events, they happen in houses, at parties, and anywhere people go. Again, Americans just accept this loss as cost of doing business, where the business is white supremacy. Your point is that we don’t have to live in fear, just as we don’t live in fear of driving or other things that we do in life that people die doing all the time, and that’s fine. But it is not overreacting at all to point out that America is absolutely a nation that practices human sacrifice, nor is it an overreaction to understand that Americans practice terrorism on their own countrymen every day. I still remember the first time an American casually tapped the pistol on his dash after I flipped him off for cutting me off in traffic. Again, I’m sure for most Americans, they just think that’s an understandable and minor road rage incident. It’s not. It’s not normal to advertise to other people in a supposedly civil society that you can and will kill them if you want. It’s not normal for children to point loaded guns at each other after scuffles, as Florida Panhandler pointed out upthread. That’s not how people in modern, civilised societies live or behave. Americans are just so numb to domestic terrorism that they think it’s normal.