On 15/07/2011 6:12 PM, Serene Vannoy wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 08:58 AM, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
>> I think the way we isolate ourselves
>> makes it worse.
>
> I agree.
>
> > Both because we feel we cannot trust those around us,
>> and because people are less invested in caring for others around them if
>> they don't know them. They are more likely to do harm or to be
>> negligent if it's some stranger than if it is someone they see at
>> neighborhood functions and talk to when coming home from work, or over
>> the back fence.
>
> This I don't agree with, though. Most molestations, rapes, and murders
> are not by strangers, but by someone known to the victim.


Kinda blows the wind out of the sails of those who want to carry guns to
protect themselves from strangers.