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Not long ago, in a small midwestern city, an older gentleman who happened to live in the same neighborhood as my son and his family went to a nearby grocery store to shop. My son and his wife often shopped at this store, and although they were careful, especially at night, they never thought what happened would ever happen in their relatively safe neighborhood.
The gentleman was in his 70s and appeared harmless. As he came out of the store, three young men accosted him and demanded money. Apparently he didn't move fast enough, or maybe he verbally disagreed with them. Regardless, they quickly turned violent.
They knocked him around, then one of them pulled out a pistol and shot him. The young men left him on the ground, helpless and bleeding. The elderly gentleman died from his wounds, wounds he received outside that well-lit, small-city supermarket.
If this can happen in a relatively small and peaceful midwestern city, what is life like in much larger cities where burglaries, robberies and murders happen regularly?
A world at risk
Have you been a victim of crime? The odds are that you—or someone close to you—have been victimized at least once, and possibly several times. Almost every day we hear of terrible crimes committed against innocent people. In some quarters walking the streets in broad daylight can be every bit as frightening and dangerous as dark alleys at midnight.
Political motives are often offered for violent terrorist acts. No nation anywhere in the world is a safe haven from the horrendous acts of violence recently witnessed in Russia, Israel, Spain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia.
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