Chicago TV news crew robbed at gunpoint while filming a story on robberies

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chicago-tv-news-crew-robbed-020000583.html

“Common sense is not a flower that grows in everyone’s garden.”

A friend’s comment about many people’s critical thinking skills

When I lived in Chicargo, several of my friends moved to the Wicker Park neighborhood because it was both trendy and convenient. One of the first things they did when I went to visit was to show me the guns they had bought. The guns were all pistol grip shotguns because at that time Chicargo didn’t allow any new handguns to be registered. Citizens who wanted to be armed just bought shotguns instead; so much for the efficacy of gun control.

Although it’s easy to poke fun at folks like the news crew that was robbed, they are far from the only people who are oblivious to dangers they place themselves in. People unthinkingly do it every single day.

While talking at The Home Depot with a friend who is an Assistant Manager there, she spotted two men walk out the door while carrying something but didn’t stop at the cashier. Her reaction was to run out the door after them. It turned out that they had legitimately done an exchange at the Service Desk and weren’t stealing. When she returned to where we were talking, I was nowhere to be found.

She looked around and saw me standing behind a display wall. When we started talking again, the conversation changed to a different subject.

Her: “I thought I had pissed you off while we were talking.”

Me: “No, I was just taking cover in case they started shooting when you chased them.”

Her: “I never thought of it but I guess that was a possibility.”

Me: “There are more killings and shootings at Home Depot than is generally known.”

I mentioned to her about the recent killing in the Florida Home Depot of a young woman by the father of her child. https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/escambia-county-home-depot-shooting  Two bystander employees were wounded during the murder. She hadn’t even heard about it. Not long before that an Asset Protection officer was shot and killed at a California Home Depot while chasing a thief. https://abc7news.com/pleasanton-home-depot-shooting-blake-mohs-worker-killed-suspect/13161846/

“It’s not the bullet with my name on it that I’m worried about, it’s the one marked ‘To Whom It May Concern’ that scares me most.“

Army saying