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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sheila727   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: You are your own first responder
Date: 04/20/23 11:49 AM
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So true. For instance, when someone rolls a basketball into your yard, shoot a 6-year-old and both parents, too. That'll show 'em. - Goofy

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So your argument equates a six year old rolling a basketball into your yard as equal threatening as four gangbangers kicking down your front door are 3 AM? Or a thug beating the hell out of your daughter as she waits for a bus. What is wrong with you people?


And as equal to a 14-year-old picking up his younger sibs who made a mistake on the street name, and as equal to a car that accidentally drove up the wrong driveway in a rural poorly marked area, and as equal to cheerleaders picking up their cars after late night practice and making a mistake and then rolling down their window to apologize to the guy exiting the "mistaken" car. And there are so many more like that. Doesn't make those violent incidents ok. Doesn't solve the problem. But the deaths of so many innocents because guns are so easy to acquire and are so relied on by so many as a first response when they don't take the moment to think......
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