> When someone has their car stolen, they do not take solace in the fact that... But people aren't responding to their car being stolen, are they? They (we?) a

> When someone has their car stolen, they do not take solace in the fact that... But people aren't responding to their car being stolen, are they? They (we?) are usually responding to a story about someone else's car being stolen. Or a story about violent crime against someone we've never met. And that's what the statistics do show - there are disproportionately far more angry people than actual victims. We're getting outraged because we hear regular stories about unfair things happening to people we've never met. And I'm not suggesting these events don't matter just because they're happening to others. But it is incorrect to conflate what are effectively random and unlikely events happening to strangers as some sort of unacceptable level of threat to ourselves. This is a challenge rooted in human nature that I don't pretend to have any solution to. Nevertheless, I think it's fair to reject any of this as an excuse for outrage or the vigilantism that Citizen promotes.