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Blue_true

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2. You make a lot of good points.

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:13 PM

Aug 2019

I used to love being among smallish crowds. Today when a crowd is around me, I am literally counting people.

I just wonder whether we are not seeing a wave of mass shootings at big retail operations. The whole thought is scary. Any popular grocery store or whatever can be a target, that causes a sinking feeling.

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What have we become. [View all] Blue_true Aug 2019 OP

Agree that latent fear in the general public has increased. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #1

You make a lot of good points. Blue_true Aug 2019 #2

At what other big retail stores have recent shootings occurred? PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #3

The one today and earlier this week was done at busy Walmarts. Blue_true Aug 2019 #4

They don't have to go to retail stores to find groups of people. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #7

Your points are rational. But people are not always rational, even ones that are most of the time. Blue_true Aug 2019 #8

The pattern I notice is... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #5

We certainly are not going to make the progress defined by your Blue_true Aug 2019 #6