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Originally Posted by edslunch
What I don’t get is how often do people actually have intruders in their house? It seems exceedingly rare here, just the odd report of a home invasion. I guess some domestic disputes qualify, but does the average person have really anything to fear from a stranger in their home? I get that there are places way more dangerous than SW Calgary but it this fear really justified seemingly all across the US?
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It's fear - Americans are the most fearful people in the developed world. It's rooted in their history and culture - a seed population made up of persecuted religious refugees, and indentured servants who took to the hills as soon as they were free. The lawlessness of the frontier. The brutality of the civil war. And for many, the nightmare made real - black slaves set free to roam the land.
They're an extraordinarily frightened people, and fear makes people irrational.