• psivchaz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Whether it’s happened or not, you’re also running into two big problems America has:

    • People who act without thinking
    • People with a hero fantasy, and also often a gun

    It doesn’t have to have happened for people to fear that it will. In a nation where too many people carry guns, act rashly, and want to see their face on the news as a local hero, it just sounds too damn possible and risky.

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Maybe so. But as someone trained in basic life saving I’m not going to let the fear of some idiot near me doing something extremely stupid stop me from doing the right thing in an emergency. If we all start thinking like that, then we’ve already ceded victory to them.