That may not be the right title but it's as close as I could get.
Recently I've noticed several posts on my Facebeast feed about people being stalked by gangs of Russian sex traffickers in Walmart and narrowly escaping being sold into slavery. I also notice that the people in the stories never feel concerned enough to call the police or cut their shopping trip short but that's another topic.
Even though these stories are (probably) all fake they illustrate a truth that a lot of people seem to refuse to acknowledge, we live in a very dangerous world.
Even on Gun forums (where I Ass-U- Me people give at least some thought to self defense or situational awareness) I read stories of people doing things that are (IMO) phenomenally stupid. I actually read a post several months back in which the poster makes a trip to Walmart at 2AM to get Moon Pies for his kid's lunch. The poster also lets his wife out of the car some distance from the store because she wants "to get her steps in." To me this is so over the top stupid I actually thought the guy was trolling.
There's a connection that I want to make but I'm not sure how to. I have worked as a security guard mostly third shift for ten years. One of the first things that I noticed is that street people move through this town all night long. It's almost like an episode of the Walking Dead. I would see a homeless person on the south end of town one night and riding his bike through the suburbs on the north east side the next. These people don't just stay in the "bad neighborhoods". Recently a security guard was murdered in Denver when he tried to remove a trespasser from the Denver Center for the Preforming Arts. I've been attacked. Those experiences form my world view. I'm a lot more cautious and I'm especially cautious around people I don't know. I'm very picky about who I let approach me at work.
There are people in my life that I care about that that refuse to believe me when I tell them that these same violent criminals cross their paths every day. It's not even so much that I'm even trying to get them to carry a gun as it is that I want them to exercise some caution around people they don't know and pay attention to their surroundings.