Current Events > Does is concern you that you may be the victim of a mass shooting?

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tropic

Not really. Everyone has to die sometime. If something happens near me I guess Id just bull charge and take one for the team so others can subdue.
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What's the point of being concerned about it?

Honestly.

I vote for people that want stronger background checks and reasonable gun regulations, that's all I can do. Sitting around and being terrified at the world is not any way to live.
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I find myself scoping out the exits a lot more often, and while I've always had sort of an aversion to big public events I find them even more unappealing now that I could realistically end up dying at one
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Never crosses my mind.
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Kombucha posted...

Sitting around and being terrified at the world is not any way to live.

Came in to say this.
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No. I'm always concerned for more personal acts of violence though. Like when I'm walking around at night I get pretty scared and I try to keep an eye on everyone around me.

Though I didn't go already I guess I'm more averse to events with giant crowds because of it. Just doesn't change my life very much.
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eston posted...

I find myself scoping out the exits a lot more often, and while I've always had sort of an aversion to big public events I find them even more unappealing now that I could realistically end up dying at one

You always realistically could die at or because of big public event.

-Something causes a panic and you trip and get trampled.
-fire
-Over capacity floor/balcony/whatever collapses
-You get peer pressured into something stupid and die
-Or you already were too much of a wild party animal and die doing something stupid without peer pressure
-Part of a performance goes wrong and you die
-You catch something from someone and die later
-you piss off a crazy person and get beaten/stabbed to death
-Food poisoning
-Drug overdose/alchohol poisoning
A previously unknown allergy is triggered or one you didn't expect to be triggered is triggered
-Flying object strikes you in the head/neck
-Activity goes wrong and you die(Like breaking your neck in some kind of sport)
Etc.
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I live in Canada, so it's not as much of a worry.
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bumpe

Yes but only because I work in a high school
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when i was in america in september i actually didn't worry about being part of a mass shooting

not while i was in mandalay bay resort, bars, clubs, etc
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It's about as reasonable as being worried about getting struck by lightning.
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no, the odds of that happening are lower than getting killed in other random ways
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