>This is why I don't go to the mall.

I won't deny that I felt lucky that I managed to get my twice a year desire to visit the Hampshire Mall out of my system a week previous.

But the reality is that there's more danger in driving to the mall than in being there - road fatalities in MA are twice as common as homicides, and the majority of homicide victims were (even if through no fault of their own) parties to an existing conflict - death as an uninvolved homicide victim like this is horrifying in its violence and randomness, but extremely rare in the scope of risks we face in our everyday lives.

We should absolutely not accept shootings or other homicides at any rate.

But driving carefully and defensively makes more practical difference than refusing to do ordinary things would.