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9. Americans are not very good at math, and they stink at probabilities, so this isn't

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 03:38 PM

Feb 2013

all that surprising.

Over 5 million homes foreclosed since the criminal enterprise of the banks collapsed, and over 50,000 families a month still being yanked out of their homes. Millions of good paying jobs are now so much smoke, continuing to be replaced with shit jobs by the millions, where they are replaced at all.

Shootings don't even come close to that. On the other hand, viewing multiple news reports about any shooting is far more likely than a story about how your corporation is screwing you, or about families being made homeless by criminals who are being funded by our tax dollars.

Thanks for posting that. It does a good job of showing the effectiveness of propaganda and television "news" at distracting people from the real dangers in their lives.

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Americans worry more about gun violence than losing their jobs [View all] onehandle Feb 2013 OP

I am not comfortable in movie theaters & it IS difficult to put out of my mind. nt patrice Feb 2013 #1

A quick quiz Bay Boy Feb 2013 #3

I went to see THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in a theater and thought nothing about it derby378 Feb 2013 #7

i love the gun nuts telling us how THEY WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR!!1 frylock Feb 2013 #37

And of course, you're an expert on what MY personal life is, right? derby378 Feb 2013 #41

you didn't have to use your AK? frylock Feb 2013 #42

I'm the same way too LeftInTX Feb 2013 #5

Seems to be a common response Bay Boy Feb 2013 #26

I'm not comfortable in movie theaters either Smilo Feb 2013 #36

They worry about gun violence and yet... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #2

Links please Kingofalldems Feb 2013 #4

I'm too lazy for that... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #17

Any chance roxy1234 Feb 2013 #44

Serious!?! Bay Boy Feb 2013 #45

Ah never thought of looking there roxy1234 Feb 2013 #47

For some of us, it is simply a matter of freedom of association. Why would others carry guns unless patrice Feb 2013 #8

Or: Bay Boy Feb 2013 #16

You just proved my point: You think GUNS are the same as FIRE EXTINGUISHERS so YOU ARE DANGEROUS. patrice Feb 2013 #19

Thank you for letting me know that... Bay Boy Feb 2013 #22

You're the one who said they should be regarded as enough alike that there is no need to treat them patrice Feb 2013 #23

BTW, do you conceal your seat-belt, your fire-extinguisher? Why not? nt patrice Feb 2013 #24

If guns were the same as seat-belts why are there any guns at all, why don't you just carry a patrice Feb 2013 #20

Echoing my questions back to me only shows you don't have any original questions of your own AND patrice Feb 2013 #21

are you fucking shitting me?! frylock Feb 2013 #38

LOL Carrying concealed Bay Boy Feb 2013 #39

are you grinding up bullets and snorting the lead? frylock Feb 2013 #40

It's not the same thing. People are worried they will upaloopa Feb 2013 #12

Hello? Hello? WHAT ARE GUNS USED FOR? Q. Why are people carrying them everywhere? A. Danger. patrice Feb 2013 #18

I carry for the potential of danger Bay Boy Feb 2013 #25

But there are differences in the functions of those three objects in response to danger. It isn't patrice Feb 2013 #27

You're not going to get your way on this, patrice. There will always be a possibility that somone... slackmaster Feb 2013 #29

Say that sort of thing to the kid who was shot outside of some club on the east side of my city patrice Feb 2013 #32

I'll take a wild guess that the kid wasn't shot by someone who was carrying a gun legally slackmaster Feb 2013 #33

You may know more about those probabilities, but PLEASE consider that not much of that matters patrice Feb 2013 #34

Some "tipping point" derby378 Feb 2013 #6

Americans are not very good at math, and they stink at probabilities, so this isn't jtuck004 Feb 2013 #9

It's not just Americans. Humans in general are not very good at understanding probability. slackmaster Feb 2013 #11

Tru dat. Not entirely bad, has to do with stuff deep in our brain that protects us from jtuck004 Feb 2013 #13

One of my friends from undergraduate days now has a PhD in Epidemiology. He has a very different... slackmaster Feb 2013 #14

That's interesting. jtuck004 Feb 2013 #15

I need to find my copy of Dan Gardner's "Risk" again now. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #35

It's clearly a result of misleading vividness in media coverage of selected violent crimes slackmaster Feb 2013 #10

just one thing. unemployed people left out of the equation. not counted. robinlynne Feb 2013 #28

It wouldn't make sense to include unemployed people in the survey... slackmaster Feb 2013 #30

actually you just dont know how terrifying it is. much higher on my fear scale. robinlynne Feb 2013 #43

Sorry if that seemed insensitive, robinlynne. I have been laid off numerous times, and dead broke slackmaster Feb 2013 #46

Of course. If one is shot dead, losing their job is the last thing on their mind graham4anything Feb 2013 #31

Do you realize that many "gun nuts" worry about being the victim of gun violence ... spin Feb 2013 #48