Reply #220: so right [View All]

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Also, while Americans are working on how not to become targets, Europeans (and Canadians?) are out in society, sharing tables and meeting one another. I am constantly meeting Germans as we eat/drink at the same table and talk either in German or English, sharing travel experiences, getting family or medical advice, learning of other good restaurants and wein gebiets, learning each other's language, and so forth. That's how I've learned German.

Last weekend I sat at a Turkish imbiss, chatting with the owner, and then a woman in a wheelchair and her boyfriend joined me at the table, and we talked. Then another woman, and her child, joined, and we had a nice long chat. Now we're all friends, and during that time it didn't cross my mind once that any of these people were going to shoot me, nor vice versa.

I'd thought then, where could this happen in the US?