If the chute fails to open you're dead. If you pass out or have a heart attack on your way down and can't pull the thingy to activate the parachute, you're dead. Also in mountain c... moreIf the chute fails to open you're dead. If you pass out or have a heart attack on your way down and can't pull the thingy to activate the parachute, you're dead. Also in mountain climbing. One miscalculation and it could cost your life. Or those extreme sports where you can get paralyzed if you fall wrong or even die. Golf and tennis and basketball are pretty safe. Ice Hockey can be deadly of get elbowed or high-sticked in the wrong place and so can football if you get enough concussions. What causes some folks to be drawn to those activities that carry with them the potential for great harm/damage/danger/death? Living life on the edge? less
Is there a gene that controls fear? Are those with it normal and those without it abnormal? Why do some folks need guns to feel safe and others want no part of them? I don't get it... moreIs there a gene that controls fear? Are those with it normal and those without it abnormal? Why do some folks need guns to feel safe and others want no part of them? I don't get it. It seems to me we should all be terrified and want loaded guns close by but we aren't. Why?
Who is the bogeyman that so terrifies gun people? Isn't others just like them? Frightened and desperate and unable to cope with life unless the loaded gun is at hand?
