re: Does it piss you off when someone says Europe is too dangerous?

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Perception is not reality.

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So true. I was in England for the Manchester bombing, missed the Borough Market incident by mere days earlier this year; had near misses w German train station event as well. But I probably drove within blocks and minutes of dozens of shootings in Orleans Parish last year as well....we have learned to ignore the violet crime on our doorsteps yet we fear the rare terror incident.

As for the idea that we are “safe”here if we stay out of certain areas, the Lafayette movie theater shooting, Las Vegas massacre, Aurora, Dylan Roof in Charleston. and a long, long list of school shootings prove that no corner of the US is immune to violence.