Do you feel safe today?

[Retro Rob]

I am thinking while sitting at home on this slow-moving Saturday; do you feel safe venturing out into public nowadays, or attending public events?

With some of the recent news and violent/mindless acts taking place at public events, I can say that I don't really know if I feel safe...well...at least as safe as I would like to feel.

The Boston Bombing, Mother's Day Parade Shooting, vicious and merciless stabbing in Detroit last week kinda has me wondering before going out -- "will some lunatic nutbag try to make history at my expense today?"

Personally, I've never been one to go out and do to much publicly anyway, but I do so at lot more since moving to the suburbs and away for the inner city...and I have seen a decrease in emergency vehicles, shootings, fires etc, since moving out of the inner city.

I would love to take my family out and enjoy a care-free day from time to time, but it seems as if that's becoming more and more of an illusion.

Thoughts?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

My thought is you need to go out. Fear sells. Don't buy it.

 

[Retro Rob]

My thought is you need to go out. Fear sells. Don't buy it.

Well, I do...and more now than I used to.

I am just more picky about where and the actual event nowadays. No, I don't think that someone's gonna shoot into a crowd or anything like that every time I leave the house -- I am just gauging how people generally fell about public events.

 

[irishScott]

I felt safe on 9/11. You sound like a victim of the 24/7 news cycle.

You're far, FAR more likely to die from something more mundane, like a car accident, than any terrorist attack or psychotic shooting. That's just cold hard statistics.

The difference is people aren't thinking of their odds of getting in a car accident when they drive to work, they're thinking about what's on the morning news.

 

[Retro Rob]

I felt safe on 9/11. You sound like a victim of the 24/7 news cycle.

You're far, FAR more likely to die from something more mundane, like a car accident, than any terrorist attack or psychotic shooting. That's just cold hard statistics.

The difference is people aren't thinking of their odds of getting in a car accident when they drive to work, they're thinking about what's on the morning news.

FWIW, I don't watch the news THAT much...just after work for about an hour, and that's basically it.

I was just thinking about this and decided to start a thread, and I trust your stats!

 

[MustISO]

I feel safe for the most part but I avoid places that would be considered risky and don't put myself in situations where things could go wrong. Might be boring but I'd rather be alive.

 

[Retro Rob]

Also, I guess an obvious giveaway would be the amount of citizens carrying a weapon nowadays, and are fighting to maintain that right because we simply still have strong-arm criminals out here...though these violent crimes are down.

 

[Harabec]

FWIW, I don't watch the news THAT much...just after work for about an hour, and that's basically it.

I was just thinking about this and decided to start a thread, and I trust your stats!

That IS a lot.
Think about it, all those hours you are wasting, watching something that is completely irrelevant to you.

Just go and enjoy life. Go see Iron Man 3.

 

[Retro Rob]

That IS a lot.
Think about it, all those hours you are wasting, watching something that is completely irrelevant to you.

Just go and enjoy life. Go see Iron Man 3.

I will go see that.

But really, I don't have CNN/MSNBC/FOX as channels -- only the local station here... basic cable!

I DO open the CNN app on my phone from time to time just to keep abreast.

 

[Harabec]

That is the healthy thing to do.

The worst thing to do is become a crazed doomsday-news fanatic babbling on Facebook about every little thing the news sources happen to fart out. There are so many these days...

P.S its been said but - how many people died from the shootings mentioned above? Now - check how many people died from car accidents alone in 2012.
Everything needs to be taken with the proper POV.

 

[Fern]

I live in a small town in the mountains. I always feel safe and never worry about that stuff. If I was back living in NYC again I might give that stuff a thought, but not here.

Fern

 

[Charles Kozierok]

I live in a small town in the mountains. I always feel safe and never worry about that stuff. If I was back living in NYC again I might give that stuff a thought, but not here.

Ditto, just different state. I can tolerate a city for maybe 48 hours before I want to run screaming with my hair on fire.

(Well, maybe not San Francisco. But I haven't been there in ages.)

My standard answer to this subject is something along the lines of: if you don't feel safe, you're living in the wrong place.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes I feel safe.

I'm still more likely to be hit with a lightning bolt while holding a winning Powerball ticket than I am to die in a terrorist attack or mass shooting.

Drunk drivers worry me much more than spree killers. Junkies mugging me for fix money thanks to the War on Drugs keeping weed illegal worries me slightly more than jihadists, but only slightly since I live in a good neighborhood.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i ride motorcycles. do i feel safe? despite all the craziness around me, yes.

basically, don't go to a shitty part of a big city and you're fine.

 

[Retro Rob]

Yes I feel safe.

I'm still more likely to be hit with a lightning bolt while holding a winning Powerball ticket than I am to die in a terrorist attack or mass shooting.

Drunk drivers worry me much more than spree killers. Junkies mugging me for fix money thanks to the War on Drugs keeping weed illegal worries me slightly more than jihadists, but only slightly since I live in a good neighborhood.

Yes -- I agree.

Of course, this wasn't intended to be a thread about what's more likely to kill you or under what circumstance would you be more likely to be harmed by someone...rather (and I could have been more clearer in the OP) do you feel safer or less safer recently.

The Race for the Cure jumped off in Michigan this morning and they did beef up police and safety just in case something stupid happened -- but that didn't stop the participants...so I guess people aren't too much affected by the recent events.

 

[ivwshane]

I live in a small town in the mountains. I always feel safe and never worry about that stuff. If I was back living in NYC again I might give that stuff a thought, but not here.

Fern

I thought I read a post of yours that said you have a gun for protection?

I feel safe.

 

[jaqie]

I always fear being harassed or worse when I go out, but not from average people, from the authorities. It has happened enough in my past and enough people I know have dealt with it repeatedly that I now have PTSD panic attacks from it when I am not out with someone I trust, and also when an authority figure puts their attention on me.

Why? My thread in health & fitness explains most of why.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't feel less safe. I don't feel more safe either. I fear our government more than terrorists. If the direction we're headed, as a country, continues....I believe it will end up like this in my lifetime:

 

[Paul98]

Yes -- I agree.

Of course, this wasn't intended to be a thread about what's more likely to kill you or under what circumstance would you be more likely to be harmed by someone...rather (and I could have been more clearer in the OP) do you feel safer or less safer recently.

The Race for the Cure jumped off in Michigan this morning and they did beef up police and safety just in case something stupid happened -- but that didn't stop the participants...so I guess people aren't too much affected by the recent events.

There is no reason to be worried about your safety because of terrorists is the point he is trying to make. Basically everything you do you have a much greater chance of getting hurt or killed than you do from a terrorist attack. So if you felt safe before there is no reason to not feel safe now.

 

[Oric]

You can't avoid fate so live your life

 

[Fern]

I thought I read a post of yours that said you have a gun for protection?
-snip-

I do in my home for home protection (also when driving cross country for vacation).

But seems to me the OP is referring to terroristic events like the Boston Marathon bombing etc and do we feel safe going out in public. If so, the answer is 'yes' because I feel no threat of a bombing or gang shoot-outs etc here.

In such a rural area the vast majority of violent crimes are domestic and then there's the occasional robbery. We don't have parade or mall shootings and the like.

Fern

 

[Agent11]

Feeling safe should be situational, not emotional. And yes, I do at the moment.

 

[techs]

Statistically speaking I am more apt to be harmed by Republican economic policies than by a terrorist. Its a fact. You can look it up.

 

[TallBill]

Well... I worked a 8 hour shift as a cop. So... yeah.

 

[HeXen]

Well I avoid the ghetto like places for starters, use my brain and try to avoid the most likely situations and I pay attention to detail. I know what's going on around me at all times. Be aware, not afraid.