# Are you afraid of/for the Olympics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-afraid-of-for-the-olympics/629254>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-afraid-of-for-the-olympics/629254 "2012-07-24T16:35:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-afraid-of-for-the-olympics/629254/21 "2012-07-25T16:51:37Z")

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> [@SanVito](#):
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> Well, we Brits live in a country where random teenagers can’t go into a shop and buy a gun (or few) with which to rampage, so the recent Batman shootings are irrelevant.

That just means someone needs to plan ahead and be creative.

Look, if I were in a position to go to the Olympics, I’d go and have fun, and not worry about stuff I couldn’t control.

But I think it is silly to say that no guns means that there can’t/won’t be someone trying to get attention and using the Olympics as the platform to do so.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-afraid-of-for-the-olympics/629254/22 "2012-07-25T20:26:37Z")

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I’m absolutely terrified that my wife will make me watch Olympic gymnastics, and that I’ll have to hear sob stories about all the little girls’ wretched lives.

Other than that, I’m not worried.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-afraid-of-for-the-olympics/629254/23 "2012-07-25T23:54:26Z")

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> [@even\_sven](#):
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> I don’t think it’s any scarier than anything else. Statistically, the most dangerous part of a large public event is the drive over.

The IOC eliminated that danger by having the 2012 Olympics host country be an island. 😛

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