The chance of your involvement in anything like that are pretty vanishingly
small. Just like my wife and I have been telling our families about our
chance of being involved in problems here in Mexico.
One of the best things one can do anymore seems to be to avoid television
news. The constant drumbeat of what turns out to be mostly reports of only
the worst about *any* area give a highly biased view that really doesn't
represent reality.
This is in no way to say that there aren't issues. There are. And they need
to be fixed. But you're far more likely to due in assn accident near home
than in any of the sort of things the need media like to blather on about.
Giving in and avoiding travel is letting the fear-mongering assholes win.
On May 12, 2015 5:25 PM, "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Trigger happy and brutal US police and random street violence are the
> biggest reasons why we no longer have any intention of visiting the USA.
> Previous happy visits to Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon and many points
> in between and beyond are a thing of the past. What would worry me is the
> prospect of being flagged down for an alleged traffic infraction, being
> tossed into a police cruiser or van and having my spine broken or body
> bruised. Sounds crazy? It is a daily occurence being reported on CNN and
> Canadian news media.
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> On 5/12/2015 5:20 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
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>> On 12 May 2015, at 21:43, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> One of the seniors is a member of our bike collective. We found that
>>>> he has returned home and is okay, though I'll be he's a bit shaken up.
>>>>
>>> Ouch. It's been remarkably quiet this year, on the school shooting
>>> front, but the threat is real. As a parent of two high-school
>>> students, it's something that we tend to keep in mind and discuss with
>>> our kids. It was a little close-to-home when I was still working in
>>> Colorado. Had I moved my family out there, the high school that the
>>> girls went to had a shooting itself, and was in the same district as
>>> the most infamous one in recent decades. But where we live, the crime
>>> level is already higher than average, and the threat level also above
>>> average, so everybody takes it more seriously. The attitude of "it
>>> can't happen here" is not our reality. It CAN happen here and we know
>>> it.
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>>> A couple of you know our own story, which I'm not at liberty to openly
>>> discuss, but I'll just say that I take this kind of thing VERY
>>> seriously, and our family has been directly involved in getting a
>>> high-risk individual arrested and removed from the campus. There are
>>> reasons why our house is under 24/7 electronic and video monitoring
>>> and has multiple layers of security.
>>>
>>> When a student expresses fear or concern, DO take it seriously and
>>> don't diminish his or her feelings. It's real.
>>>
>>> AG
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