I would avoid a store where people are openly carrying guns

[Hekate]

129. You've got plenty of company, CreekDog. There's a streak of madness in America's makeup.

There's some guy in Oregon walking up and down the sidewalk in front of an elementary school carrying a rifle. When I read the article several days ago, eight different residents on that street had called the cops, and the cops had let it be known that the rifleman was within his rights to do what he was doing.

Any rational person knows that the teachers and students are being terrified by his presence. Just since 2000, and counting only those where 3 or more were killed, here's the list. Not all of these names leap out at you, do they? But enough of them are right in the front of our minds that you would think it would be understood that vulnerable people are being terrified -- and he knows it, and the cops know it. Nonetheless there were DUers in that thread who vehemently defended this behavior as his "right."

Just going through this list makes my stomach hurt.

Thurston HS Oregon,
Columbine HS Colorado,
Santana HS California,
Red Lake HS Minnesota,
Amish School Pennsylvania,
Virginia Tech,
Northern Illinois University,
University of Alabama Huntsville,
Chardon HS Ohio,
Oikos University California,
Sandy Hook Elementary School Connecticut,
Hazard Community College Kentucky,
Santa Monica College California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

Madness.