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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Saturday afternoon (1:00 PM, bright daylight..)
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Yes. Crime can happen. Anytime. Any place.
Why dwell on it? Why sensationalize it? You can take precautions without dwelling on statistics; you can be prepared without being paralyzed by fear.
What are you trying to "say" with these quotes about statistics?
When everyone becomes a vigilante are you prepared for the criminals to shoot first with no warning? Or are you just going to "defend" yourself against everyone who "looks like a criminal?"
Just asking. Trying to get a better understanding of what this thread is really about. First you ask for people to explain how they will defend themselves and now every reply from you contains some statistic about how 1 person in 6,000,000,000 who is mugged.
Yes, violent crime can happen (and has happened) to me--that still doesn't make it the epidemic that the media portrays it to be. Even if it DOES happen to me again it WAS STILL UNLIKELY. In the vernacular this attitude is called "perspective." It means "an understanding of the relative proportion of things."
Again, I'm not saying that people should not be cautious; but for some reason the reaction is way overboard.