Posted on Nov 12, 2015
What are your thoughts about this survey? "Americans Fear Guns Over Terrorism"
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Security Magazine (11/11/15)
A new survey shows that Americans are more worried about being a victim of gun violence than of terrorism. In the McClatchy/Marist poll, 63 percent of the Americans surveyed said they were afraid that they or someone they knew would die from gun violence. In comparison, 29 percent said they were more afraid of terrorist attacks. Republicans and Democrats tended to be divided over what they considered the greater threat. Seventy-seven percent of Democrats thought that gun violence was a greater concern than terrorism, while Republicans believed that terrorism was a bigger threat by 55 percent to 45 percent.
What are you more concerned with? My personal thoughts are that I am concerned about both but I am more concerned about Terrorist because those bastards just don't give a shit about anyone but themselves and their ideological bullshit way of thinking.
A new survey shows that Americans are more worried about being a victim of gun violence than of terrorism. In the McClatchy/Marist poll, 63 percent of the Americans surveyed said they were afraid that they or someone they knew would die from gun violence. In comparison, 29 percent said they were more afraid of terrorist attacks. Republicans and Democrats tended to be divided over what they considered the greater threat. Seventy-seven percent of Democrats thought that gun violence was a greater concern than terrorism, while Republicans believed that terrorism was a bigger threat by 55 percent to 45 percent.
What are you more concerned with? My personal thoughts are that I am concerned about both but I am more concerned about Terrorist because those bastards just don't give a shit about anyone but themselves and their ideological bullshit way of thinking.
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Actually that’s not true. Real Americans don’t fear guns because they know guns by themselves do nothing. The fear is about the insane individuals who will use them. Terrorists are, and always be, are biggest fear. By the way, I just checked my guns. They are all accounted for and have not left my house to kill my next door neighbors or the people at Walmart!
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I can see how these results arose. Most news about terrorists and terrorism is 1000s of miles away while gun violence is reported at universities, at shopping centers and nearby apartment complexes. Tulsa for example, has had 50+ homicides this year - pulling from memory at moment- and majority of those were thanks to firearms. The closest threats of terrorist violence occurring here...well I cannot think of a single time that has made the news.
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I fear naive idiots with power more than I do terrorism or guns. I am a mental health professional, and have worked in "gun free zone(s)." I have tried to engage administrators in conversations about encouraging a few clinicians with military or law enforcement experience to carry concealed where I worked. The common response I got back from the administrators is that their insurance company will not allow such a policy. After raising the question, all employees were required to sign the no firearms policy. It is only a matter of time before we have a paranoid psychotic client visiting the clinic while locked and loaded. Being a veteran, it would kill me if such an event happened where I work, and I didn't do everything I could to prepare for such an attack.
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My problem in general with gun control is that I don't see it nearly as black and white as the party lines of either Democrat or Republicans. There are some things that need to be controlled, and others that don't. There are also some things that gun control will help prevent (toddlers shooting people) and things it won't (violent criminals who obtained their weapons illegally anyways).
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Generally speaking I agree with you, but I fear the onslaught of stupidity that would follow.
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Perhaps it depends on what part of the country you live in. I live in Monmouth County, New Jersey. My area was devastated by the terrorist attack of 9/11.
My wife's best friend lost her son, an employee of Cantor-Fitzgerald, whose offices were dead center of one of the impacts by the hijacked planes. Our neighbor two doors up the street escaped with his life by walking down the stairs from the 60th floor, as firemen were walking up those stairs to their deaths.
When the buildings collapsed he was covered with concrete dust, choking on the cloud of dust generated from the vast weight of the top floors of the buildings pulverizing the lower floors.
I spoke with another employee of Cantor-Fitzgerald, who was returning from a business trip to the West Coast that morning. His plans called for his plane to arrive at NYC in time for him to meet his boss in the C-F company cafeteria at the WTC for breakfast at about 8:30 AM. He would make a report on the results of his trip, then a brief stop in his office, and finally off to the last leg of the trip, the train home.
By chance, his flight was delayed, and he missed his scheduled connecting flight. While he waited for his alternate connection, the first reports came in of the terrorist strikes, and all fights were grounded.
Had his homeward flight gone as planned, he would have been killed along with his boss and co-workers.
For days afterward, when the wind was blowing from the north, the burning-plastic fumes from the smoldering rubble of the WTC could be smelled throughout the area.
We in New Jersey know what a terrorist attack is. We know what horror can result from airplanes and box-cutters.
What we fail to do, is to recognize that our stupid, irresponsible gun laws do nothing but leave us as "designated victims" to ordinary, run-of-the-mill armed criminals who would kill us for the sake of their next crack-cocaine "fix".
My wife's best friend lost her son, an employee of Cantor-Fitzgerald, whose offices were dead center of one of the impacts by the hijacked planes. Our neighbor two doors up the street escaped with his life by walking down the stairs from the 60th floor, as firemen were walking up those stairs to their deaths.
When the buildings collapsed he was covered with concrete dust, choking on the cloud of dust generated from the vast weight of the top floors of the buildings pulverizing the lower floors.
I spoke with another employee of Cantor-Fitzgerald, who was returning from a business trip to the West Coast that morning. His plans called for his plane to arrive at NYC in time for him to meet his boss in the C-F company cafeteria at the WTC for breakfast at about 8:30 AM. He would make a report on the results of his trip, then a brief stop in his office, and finally off to the last leg of the trip, the train home.
By chance, his flight was delayed, and he missed his scheduled connecting flight. While he waited for his alternate connection, the first reports came in of the terrorist strikes, and all fights were grounded.
Had his homeward flight gone as planned, he would have been killed along with his boss and co-workers.
For days afterward, when the wind was blowing from the north, the burning-plastic fumes from the smoldering rubble of the WTC could be smelled throughout the area.
We in New Jersey know what a terrorist attack is. We know what horror can result from airplanes and box-cutters.
What we fail to do, is to recognize that our stupid, irresponsible gun laws do nothing but leave us as "designated victims" to ordinary, run-of-the-mill armed criminals who would kill us for the sake of their next crack-cocaine "fix".
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