[quote=spdrun]You’re being too charitable: the average American is a mouth-breathing, fearful little twit. It’s not only fear of terrorism, it’s fear of crime (which has gone down in the last 30 years). I’ve heard people say, with a straight face, that they’d not go to a state which didn’t allow them to carry a gun because they wouldn’t feel safe. While looking like a heart attack on the hoof.[/quote]

Fear drives every person and every animal. You fear that people will think you’re the average American (or that people will know you have fears). All the animals that didn’t fear things ended up as another animal’s lunch, so we’re all descendants of the fearful ones, and we have their genes. So lets get off this idea that you’re Mr. Brave and the people you despise are fearful. Women are at least as fearful as men and they don’t carry guns at the same rate – so why is that?