And a huge majority of these people would be white, wouldn't they?
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/5/2015 1:54 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>
>> I don't think that either media reporting or broad statistics are an
>> accurate representation of one's likely experience in most circumstances.
>> I'll second Bob Benson's comments about media reporting. And while I've no
>> reason to doubt Nathan's reporting of the statistics, the reality is that
>> for reasonably cautious Caucasian people, safety in most areas of the US
>> and Europe isn't much of an issue.
>>
>
> On a broad scale, I've read in a couple of books* that those who work to
> evaluate such things have concluded that those middle class or above,
> living in contemporary first world places live in by far the safest
> situation in our history as a species.
>
--
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