TX 12 year old boy kills Sonic employee by shooting him repeatedly with an AR15..

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19. we are considerable safer from harm

at the hands of an incident such as this - than we are a whole host of other things. It's the exaggeration of the threat to our own, individual, personal safety ...

I think most (OK, vast majority) here on DU will readily agree that gun violence is a serious, and crescendoing, issue. Way too many guns - and way too many of them in the wrong hands. Where you're likely to meet resistance is when it is suggested that we should all be cowering under our beds - or hesitant to go out for groceries, visit a sick friend, or to pick up a prescription. That level of fear (paranoia) is simply not justified.

Edit: (went back and read your posted thread) What a completely contrived strawman! Show me I time when anybody here is saying, "No need to do anything about guns, because ..." Does my post sound anything like that to you?