Spencer Corson

But if we're right, we're even safer.

You should live your life like you drive your car.

You're not constantly afraid of getting into an accident, but you're cognizant of the risks that surround you while you're driving, and then you're putting the safeguards into place.

Your everyday life is exactly the same way.

You're not afraid to drive, are you?

No.

Okay.

So then you shouldn't be afraid to go to Starbucks, or you shouldn't be afraid to go to the grocery store.

You shouldn't be afraid to go...

you know, to, to the mall.

But just like when you're on your car driving, if you see someone coming up behind you, you look to see where, which like, do I want to go to the shoulder or do I want to go to the middle lane?

Like, which way am I going to go?

If this guy keeps coming up behind me, when you go to the movie theater, just look, okay, well, if someone comes in the front, I can go out the back or look, there's a side door here.

There's an exit there.

I completely agree.

And then here's what happens.

We have a tendency, not just as individuals, but as a collective society, to want to live our lives on the fringe of the pendulum swinging between complacency, where we say that nothing's going to happen, or hypervigilance, where we're like patting down grandma at the ballpark.

After something bad, let's say a school shooting, for example.

There's all these cops out front of the school, and everyone's locked down, and they're following the policy and the procedure, like steps one through 10 for access control, and the doors are locked, and the windows are closed, and everyone's on guard, and the politicians are out there saying that they're going to get gun reform, and the parents are demanding action, and the students are marching for peace, and then a day or two goes by, and the news cycle moves on, and

Everything kind of goes back to normal and well, it's been safe for a week.