There are very, very few areas of the country in which most Americans need to feel fear visiting or traveling through.

Personal Safety is not a feeling I encounter often, it is more often fear. From the guy in South Carolina who felt the need to carry a pistol while jogging to a housewife who carries a .38 while hiking.

This feeling of fear, seems to me to be emanating from the media outlets that sensationalize traumatic events. I get this strange culture shock in the US from people that things are "not safe". However, the internal opinion I get from people is that the US is the best place in the world, and the safest at the same time. 

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

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