[meteorite-list] Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Safety, or Terrorism Concerns

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:51:40 +0100
Message-ID: <551133AC.3040102_at_online.nl>

As things stand, you face a decidedly higher risk loosing your life in the USA
than in Morocco or Tunisia.

It is funny that many Americans apparently do not realise that their own country
is a lot less safe than many others.


> Traveling anywhere including
> just down the street isn't as safe as it
> used to be.


I disagree. In many areas of the World it is safer now than it ever was.

Take my country: even though some politicians and media peddle the fear-factor
here too, truth is crime and homicide rates have never been so low as they are
today.

Unfortunately, there are also a few areas in this world where the shit has hit
the fan (but then: there always have been). And the media attention (and
self-serving political image mongery) connected to that create an impression of
an increasingly unsafe world, while in large parts of the world in fact there is
an opposite trend.

Don't buy into the fear-mongering (but do be sensible of where you go).

- Marco


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Received on Tue 24 Mar 2015 05:51:40 AM PDT