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Ignorance. Ignorance of how they work and how unlikely they are to affect your life. (I'm sure many Americans are similarly ignorant about some "dangerous" gro
by fennecfoxen 13y ago
Ignorance.
Ignorance of how they work and how unlikely they are to affect your life. (I'm sure many Americans are similarly ignorant about some "dangerous" group in another geographic location which is in fact dangerous but unlikely to be encountered.)
- yummyfajitas 13y agoPeople back in the US worry about me getting robbed/murdered here in India. Apparently a country full of poor folks must be dangerous like Newark, NJ. (India is dangerous, but not for men, and not because of poverty.)
- hadoukenio 13y agoI was mainly talking about gang violence and the US' extremely high shooting rate. It was only last year that an Australian was shot while he was jogging by a group of 15 year old boys for no reason except that they were bored: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-05/teenages-accused-in-death-of-australian-baseballer-chris-lane-a/5238858 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-05/teenages-accused-in-de...
- fennecfoxen 13y agoMaybe, but look at risk in a little more detached of a manner: essentially no one is going to come to the US and get shot. They're going to come to the US and die in a car crash.