[driftless2]

At a music festival some years ago in Milwaukee I ran into a guy who worked in Detroit. I asked him if it wasn’t a little dangerous. He said yes, but he never went anywhere without a firearm under his car seat. I wonder if that’s a common practice for many Detroiters and people who live around Detroit who have to go into the city for work.

[cripplecreek]

I wonder if that’s a common practice for many Detroiters and people who live around Detroit who have to go into the city for work.

Of course it is but if you look around FR, you'll see people who claim to do the same no matter where they are.

[Gen.Blather]

I was astonished at the number of employees in Sterling Heights who said, “Oh, it’s not that dangerous, I’ve been there lots of times.” They suffer from normalcy bias. I’ve done something presumed dangerous and nothing happened to me. But if the probability is, say, .1 then it is likely you can do whatever it is several times, perhaps for a lifetime and nothing will happen. But the statistics say it will happen to somebody and the odds are lots better than winning the lottery. People never believe bad things will happen to them.

My mother said if you don’t want bad things to happen stay out of places where the bad things happen.