I mean, everyone always says "I see it on TV, but I never expected it to happen here!" Until it does.
Though I've been in close proximity to gunfire (one was a drive-by on the opposite side of the street where I was walking, and the other, an altercation in a parking lot), and it's quite distressing, I didn't personally feel I was in mortal danger because I wasn't the target.
Even so, I can't emphasize enough how nice it is to not even have to think about it happening. I haven't looked recently, but I seem to remember statistics of something like 10 firearms deaths on average a year. Thats like a quiet morning in Chicago.
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