Originally Posted by: kingdavidIt's one of those "knee-jerk" reaction things.
How much have you heard people tell you about the ravages that HIV/AIDS is meteing out on Africa? Probably a lot. Well, I'm told that good old Malaria kills more people that HIV/AIDS. I'd never have guessed it, looking at all the activity revolving around the scourge (I'd have written "the scourge", but then people might have thought I didn't take HIV/AIDS seriously, which I do).

Similarly, for all the attention violence and violent crime is getting here in the US, violent crime rates are at a 20 year low. You've been more likely to become a victim of a violent crime in the UK than in the US since 1996.

However, media coverage of it is at an unprecidented high, so guess how people respond?