Fascinating article.
“In the dramatic video from inside the New Hope, Minnesota city council chambers, one of the council members reacts to the sound of gunfire outside of the doors by drawing his own weapon and preparing to defend his colleagues.”Note: the Gun Watch blog post discusses the tendency to freeze up, go into denial, wish it away (this can’t be happening), when a calamity occurs. This is referred to by psychologists as “normalcy bias”. It is the tendency to believe that if a calamity (criminal assault, terrorist attack, natural disaster, accident, war, etc., etc.) has not happened to you before, it cannot happen to you. It frequently afflicts people who live in safe in secure societies. Bad things happening are not a “normal” part of their life, after all, so such people may not immediately recognize them when they first happen. Normalcy bias can cause people to not want to prepare for an impending disaster or to take precautions against crime. “Why are you carrying a gun?” such people frequently ask of concealed carry permit holders. Why indeed? The city councilman described in this article certainly knew why he had a concealed carry permit and why he chose to carry that day.
Link to video
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