Brilliant Idiot

Interesting discussion.

I was listening to a radio interview about the research behind what makes people be secure and what makes people feel secure. Here's what the guy was saying:

Proliferation of guns and security messures actually increases the sense of being insecure. From a psychological standpoint, it focuses our attention on our feelings of insecurity and heightens our awareness of gaps in our security, which, if you think of it, are ubiquidous and can never be completely filled.

I'd say your best protection is in shifting attitudes toward oneself and others. Let's put it this way: if you're a good person, looking out for others, making meanignful,respectful relationships all around you, you are more secure, because you are surrounding yourself with the same kind of people. Now, if we start to do that on a national level, what do you think will happen?