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Originally Posted by Robbie
Yep, getting killed in an automobile dwarfs everything else statistics-wise.
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depends on lifestyle Robbie, just like gun violence, other than random whack jobs and mass shootings...
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But being concerned about it is a waste of time. Just like it's a waste of time being concerned about gun control or where lightning might strike, etc.
We can try to make things better of course, but govt. always seems to overreach and use tragedies to their advantage to pursue agendas that we don't even know about. 
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I'm almost of the belief that the need to be a politician is a mental illness. think about it, the 'need' to dominate and control other...and most politicians are sociopathic as well as dishonest as the day is long from what I can tell...
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My personal feeling is that people should worry more about their own behavior...and law enforcement should be used to arrest someone after they do a crime.
All this stuff of trying to predict crimes and stop them ahead of time reminds me of that movie "Minority Report".
Preemptive moves rarely work out the way people intend. (just look at the Iraq war for instance).
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pretty sure there is no mandate in the police agency's to protect, only to enforce. you'll notice the cops are now referred to as 'law enforcement' these days... the 'peace officer' days are long gone... kinda like bums are now homeless and illegals are now undocumented...
just as the days of 'personal responsibility are long gone with the influx of minority culture in modern society changing the perspectives to 'you owe me and you'll will take care of me and I demand respect' which replaced the personal responsibility that earlier generations were founded on.
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I say...IF somebody kills somebody, THEN arrest them and hold that person responsible for what he did. Right now it seems to me that there is a line of thinking that is heading towards trying to preemptively stop crimes before they happen.
I don't think that will work, and the end result will be even more govt. control over our lives. (which is why I say just repeal the 2nd amendment and be done with it IF that's what our society has decided needs to be done).
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one day I was messing around online and I came across last meals of executed prisoners... and one thing that really stood out to me was that in ALMOST every case of a death penalty, the condemned man had been in prison for man slaughter and had been released.