OK, so we are getting silly.
If Hamas was to attack wouldn't it be by way of uni-bombers?
Wouldn't the most targeted population be the Jewish?
Or any large group of Americans.
If a terrorist group wanted to really scare Americans, the place to attack wouldn't be in large cities where such things are expected. I've read that attacking shopping malls around the holidays would deeply scar the American psyche. So would initiating multi-car pile-ups on a bunch of Interstates, preferably over a period of a few days. Many Americans think they're safe if they're outside larger cities. An attack like I mentioned would paralyze the entire country with fear, probably cost more than the 9/11 attacks in terms of economic damage, and (to quote a line from Avatar):
"Now, the hostiles believe that this mountain stronghold of theirs is well protected by their – their deity. And when we destroy it, we will blast a crater in their racial memory so deep that they won't come within a thousand klicks of this place ever again."
Contrary to big city people's opinion, we aren't like the Clampetts, not a bunch of uneducated, inbred backward hicks. We are educated in universities, and those that aren't are still a lot smarter than you think.
Plenty of really ignorant people in large cities. Sadly, most of them actually. Just like pretty much anywhere else.
We are scared to death that what is happening in the big metros will come to our area, too.
Hence my usual line when I hear neighbors or friends talk about leaving NYC. You can run, but eventually the same problems are coming your way no matter where you go, short of living in the middle of rural Alaska off-grid. Best to just stand your ground and deal with them here. Besides, moving is SUCH a hassle.
Really at a loss how "what's happening on TV" is being generalized.
Living in a major metro area (
Dallas-Fort Worth being #4) like some
83% of the population in a middling suburb and trekking downtown multiple times a week I've yet to witness these horrors being alluded to.
Same here. I feel perfectly safe where I am.
2023 will probably see an uptick in homicides in my burb but the stuff making the news is, shall we say, an occupational hazard for those involved in or patronizing the illicit distribution business rather than more vivid random violence.
Yep, many of those homicides are gang bangers offing each other, like
this one not far from where my brother lives.
You and I do this also... generally speaking we shop where the price is the lowest... regardless of the long-term consequences to ourselves and others.
How do you think wal-mart got so large? If people never shopped there, they would have gone bust in Arkansas.
True but with 40 years of wage stagnation in many cases if prices were higher people would simply do without. The stores selling higher-priced goods would be out of business even without Walmart.
I'd gladly pay a little more for things if it meant keeping people in this country in jobs, but for a lot of the stuff I need that option doesn't even exist any more.