• Mickey7@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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        1 year ago

        That may be true based on stats which can always be manipulated. But it sure doesn’t feel safer. There was a time when you had no fear riding the subway. Now you are taking your life in your hands just standing on the platform

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          1 year ago

          NYC used to be much more dangerous. Really goes to show how mislead we can be by emotions that you feel it’s only dangeeous now

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          1 year ago

          Was that before or after Bernie Goetz decided to murder people and then he got away with it? Because I’m not sure everyone felt safer after that.

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      Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it would be categorised or described differently. A mass shooting is a mass shooting, no matter how often it happens.