I find this fear of city denizens exists almost exclusively in people in rural areas, who spend little time in cities. People in cities generally are pretty coo

I find this fear of city denizens exists almost exclusively in people in rural areas, who spend little time in cities. People in cities generally are pretty cool about any risk and used to rubbing shoulders with all types. Also, having spent a lot of time with those people, they know the risk is very small. (Of course both groups are self-selected to an extent.) To go off on a tangent, but it's ironic that gun control is the same way: People in much safer rural areas insist guns are necessary for self-defense; people in higher-crime cities generally favor gun control.