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You want to go where?
Am I just supposed to trust you on that? It is all very well for you to state it, but a google search has not yielded any data on deaths due to police action in Athens.
(Note this is all ad argumentum so you don't really need to answer on my account. I would certainly be much more likely to visit Athens than to visit St. Louis and I wouldn't really worry about visiting either.) My argument was simply that we shouldn't criticize the OP as some did for asking a legitimate question out of understandable ignorance, given recent media portrayals. As you imply in your post, a similar question could be asked about St. Louis with even more legitimacy.
Of course you can't trust
a priori any info that you
anonymously get over the Internet. I also agree fully that the OP's question was "legitimate" as were most answers (s)he got, although with a sort of sarcastic connotation. Moreover, even when the stats indicate that there is a very low percent of chances for something to happen, you never know when and if it will happen: what were the chances that one actually flew in a plane where the co-pilot suffered from a
bona fide pre-suicidal syndrome? Still, as often indicated in questions of the kind, whether Athens or St. Louis, with simple common sense one avoids most dangers (or so we hope
).