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cb1000rider wrote:Personally, I think that thanks to the media attention, if you want to get some attention in the US, we all know how to do it. Frequency of incidents is going to stay at the current level - or maybe increase. I just don't remember it being like this 20 or 30 years ago. And all this attention is bad for the 2nd amendment.

You are welcome to go look at the FBI violent crime stats, they are there for anyone to see. There were more killings and other violent crimes in years past, peaking in the early 90's. Even as the numbers of violent crimes, to include shootings, has fallen, the attention the media has given to those incidents has risen. One can say it's because "if it bleeds, it leads", and is only motivated by lust for ratings. But if that is so, why so little coverage of the worst of the violence and shootings in big cities done by gangs?

I've said this before and I'll say it again. When I was a kid, one of the things that impacted me most deeply was the episode of the BBC series "The World At War" about the mass extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. I vowed to myself, as a kid, that I would never willingly let that happen to me. I'm not a "tough guy", I have no particular fighting skills, but I will NOT be placed into a camp to starve to death, or allow myself to be tied up and shot into a mass grave. I despise ALL collectivist ideologies, including so-called "progressives" because they have zero compunction about doing those horrific things to incredible numbers of people. Nothing matters to them except their twisted dreams of "utopia" and they have an utter commitment to what they have to do in pursuit of said nightmare. History is my guidebook as to what they will do, if we let them.