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It's scary and incomprehensible. I live a stone's throw from Detroit and it is hard to wrap my mind around the violence. My town is extremely safe, I spend a lot of time in downtown Detroit and have never once felt unsafe even walking along with two little ones. We also don't have any gang issues so it makes it especially hard to understand.

At the same time, it looks like a war zone in some areas of Detroit and that is before you ever see a person. Living in a place like that you must think that since no one cares that you live that way that human life must not be worth much?

There are so many amazing and awesome things about Detroit and that the people are doing to show what a spectacular and vibrant place it is. But the numbers don't lie, in most of the city life is really, really rough. For an interesting look at the city take a look at this blog: http://www.detroitblog.org/

I swear Michigan is a spectacular place, I am happy to show anyone around so you can see that we are more than the sum of our murders.

It is indescribable to those who don't live near Detroit...

I grew up and live in a suburb just northeast of Detroit and witnessed my dad get held up at gunpoint (he's experienced this multiple times).

Just this past year, both of my parents were held up at gun point at their store. (Thankfully they were safe and he didn't pull the trigger).

I know SO many friends and acquaintances in the Korean community who have lost family members to gun violence in their place of business (mostly throughout Detroit).

I feel like Detroit has SO MUCH potential to be like many other urban downtowns, like Chicago; but I don't think I'll ever see it my lifetime nor will our children.