Some fears are more realistic than others.

Leonard Pitts included the following statistic in his weekend op-ed piece:

It came last month, courtesy of the Washington Post, which reported that, as of mid-October, toddlers in America have been shooting people this year at a rate of one a week.

He goes on to discuss how media coverage produces inordinate fear of home break-ins. Crime, he says, “has fallen to historic lows and your life, property and person are safer now than they have been in decades. He concludes, we should fear gun accidents in the home more and crime less.  Interesting article.