Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
it sounds like they don't want you to go for some other reasons
I was thinking that too. One of those 'our little baby is growing up so fast and we aren't ready or willing to deal with it yet' kind of syndromes. It happens all of the time around that age, especially for girls.
Betty, just to refine your debating skills, don't you be the one to mention about anyone getting shot outside of the club, even if it's in the negative, as in
not getting shot. The human psyche doesn't hear the positive or negative but instead it perceives the basic concept while the cerebral cortex does the analyzing on it's own.
In short, just don't bring it up. Since it's been the winning factor in their arguement so far, they will stick with it. You'll just have to find some kind of way to convince them that kind of stuff just doesn't happen at the 9:30 Club when they do reuse that point. Concentrate on the 9:30 Club itself and not any other venue just to keep it simple and so they can't throw in anything from anywhere else within DC. If they still insist, than you can do the same by including how that those kinds of crimes happen in schools, banks, shopping malls, gas stations, churches (Yes! It's happened!), home!, etc., but history has shown that it hasn't happened and mathematically highly improbable to happen at the 9:30 Club. Should you not go to school? Should you not go to Synagogue? Should you just lock yourself up in your house until they think the world is 100% completely safe to step outside?
It's also like saying that planes crash sometimes. Should you never fly even though there are way more car crashes than plane crashes? Wait a minute. Nix that example or they will throw it back at you next year when you try to get your learner's permit.
Anyway, you get the idea. Find some similiar topic to counter their arguements. BTW, I'm using the word arguement as meaning oppossing sides of an issue, not as a fight.
Save this too for when
they bring it up but almost all drive-by shootings are aimed at a known individual, not random people. (Don't bring up the DC snipers and if they do, they are incarcerated. Also, those kinds of snipers are very rare and can strike
anywhere!) Odds are, any drive-by hitman isn't going to go after someone while that person is standing in some kind of line or too many other peope are around. Using the criminal mind, the
know there are too many witnesses around! The criminal element will also know there are too many 9:30 Club staph and DC police officers there who are trained to act immediately on any kind of incident like that. They don't want confrontation nor identification therefore they would take their nasty business elsewhere.
Believe me, I fully understand where you are coming from. I missed so many shows when I was your age, partially for the very same reasons. My friends were going and nothing was happening to them. Just had to wait my time out which seemed forever. Now it all goes by way too fast!
Good luck!
