The bystander effect.

For everyone of these there is at least one where fellow citizens heroically come to the rescue.

Within the last several days there was a YouTube video of "bystanders" jointly lifting a car in flames off of the rider of a motorcycle.

Not that long ago there was the story of the man who threw himself on the tracks of incoming train to protect someone who had fallen in.

People are good and we can trust their intelligence and their morals...sorry lefties.

Yes it is! A horrible fear of mine.

Antonio would be kicking and screaming.

It can be hard to judge those situations; e.g., in the 1930s,
my uncle intervened to save a woman who was being treated very ruffly,
nearly being beaten, by a man. He tried to save the woman,
by whom he was castigated and told to mind his own damn business.





David

So far as I can remember,
I have had only 2 obsessions in my life:
1. defensive armament
2. a girl named Joyce, for a few decades.





David

Sometimes people (such as myself) have been taken by a concept
and feel driven by it. I can remember back to being 3 years old.
There has NEVER been a time that I was not obsessed with guns.
I don 't know the reason for that. No one in my family cared much about it.
My early friends did not care about it (tho thay DID play with imitation guns).
I don 't know anyone with the same obsession.
People can be (and have been) obsessed by many other things, beside guns,
e.g. religion, punctuality, work, re-cleaning very repetitively, diet, sex or anti-sex and probably many other things.
In MY case it just happens to be carrying guns. I wonder Y that IS.

If anyone has any ideas of the cause, I 'd be interested to know them.


That is because I have been obsessive about guns as far back in my life as I am able to remember.


I live in a nice house in Queens County, NY.
There r no horses around (tho I like them).
There is no dynamite around; no use for it.
My gun collection is fairly small.
When I add guns to my collection, I do so as artifacts of history
or in the spirit of nostalgic Americana, not from concerns
qua security. I have had enuf guns for my personal security
since I was 8; I don 't need more, for that.

My gun collection is like my gold coin collection, or like a car collection:
not necessarily for transportation, but for personal satisfaction;
an art collection like my kaleidoscopes.





David