Originally posted by Karen
I'm not afraid! I dislike the media - any media - telling me that I am! And, by the way, I like my neighbors. I live on a pretty diversely-populated street, various ethnicities and everything from new immigrants, and people who have lived here for 80+ years. And I live in a "city," too. I wave to people when I drive down my humble little street, and they wave back.

As for Bowling for Columbine, read that site Paul pointed too. Boy, was I annoyed when I realized how much the movie twisted things and misrepresented stuff.
You're very lucky! Where I live, houses have bars on the windows. A neighborhood organization sends out a map every month with little symbols showing what crimes were reported in what location. Little masks representing burglaries, little cars representing stolen cars, little bodies representing homicides. I like living in the city, but there's no doubt that people are afraid.

One thing that Michael Moore got right in Bowling for Columbine is that many people in Denver were offended by the NRA's insistence on going ahead with its meeting here in the wake of the Columbine tragedy. This town was in shock. So what if it would have inconvenienced the organization to cancel and reschedule its annual meeting elsewhere? It just wasn't the time or the place to be promoting the pro-gun agenda.