John’s point is generally Sound. And just because he is a moderator doesn’t mean he cannot have an opinion. You can disagree with him or debate it, that’s fine he won’t give you a demerit as long as you’re respectful and rational.
Baca went to the riot maybe not looking for trouble, but looking to be involved in some way. He rolled the dice and took a risk, and now he’s gonna sit in front of a jury for it. An expense I would rather not incur. Too easy to avoid by just not being there. In the case of truck driver Reginald Denny, I think that may not be an example I would use to argue that “you can avoid a riot in 99.999% of the time.” I believe John is wrong on that one. An out of town truck driver in 1992 before cell phones and minute by minute news coverage, the guy didn’t have a GPS he had a paper map. He followed his normal route and it is quite possible that, by the time he did realize there was serious trouble he should be concerned with, it was too late for him to turn a semi around. My first thought at seeing smoke on the horizon isn’t “I bet there’s a riot over there.” Reginald Denny May very well be illustrative of the point that there are some people, in some cases, who didn’t go looking for trouble but trouble found them. And they had no way of predicting it before hand. That being said, 99% of the time trouble can be easily avoided with just a little rational forethought.
EDIT: I see I got my facts partly wrong. Reginald Denny was not an out of town truck driver but I still stand by the reasoning that he may not have had information as to the specific location of any riots in 1992 pre smart phones and instant news access.
Baca went to the riot maybe not looking for trouble, but looking to be involved in some way. He rolled the dice and took a risk, and now he’s gonna sit in front of a jury for it. An expense I would rather not incur. Too easy to avoid by just not being there. In the case of truck driver Reginald Denny, I think that may not be an example I would use to argue that “you can avoid a riot in 99.999% of the time.” I believe John is wrong on that one. An out of town truck driver in 1992 before cell phones and minute by minute news coverage, the guy didn’t have a GPS he had a paper map. He followed his normal route and it is quite possible that, by the time he did realize there was serious trouble he should be concerned with, it was too late for him to turn a semi around. My first thought at seeing smoke on the horizon isn’t “I bet there’s a riot over there.” Reginald Denny May very well be illustrative of the point that there are some people, in some cases, who didn’t go looking for trouble but trouble found them. And they had no way of predicting it before hand. That being said, 99% of the time trouble can be easily avoided with just a little rational forethought.
EDIT: I see I got my facts partly wrong. Reginald Denny was not an out of town truck driver but I still stand by the reasoning that he may not have had information as to the specific location of any riots in 1992 pre smart phones and instant news access.
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