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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. They don't have to go to retail stores to find groups of people.

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 3, 2019, 10:19 PM

Aug 2019

Churches have worked very well in the past.

And while I don't want to downplay the horror, keep in mind that both in actual numbers and in percentages, only a very few people are shot, whether wounded or killed. What I'm trying to say is do NOT let this incident, or any others, keep you from shopping or going to church or a theater or a concert or whatever.

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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