I like the idea that nice areas only have nice low intensity gun fights. Sounds like a plan to me.
My stepdad was the Chief of Police of my hometown for 24 years, only about 15 miles away from where I live now. He spent 42 years on the force, and never fired a shot. Crime was/is very low.
But he lost one of his officers about a decade ago to a man that lost his mind. He was a POS that beat his wife. My brother, a Detective for the county, was the lead investigator into a domestic abuse case involving the POS and his wife.
One night, the man totally lost it and loaded up an SKS and several mags and killed his wife at their home out in the sticks. Then he drove to town and went to the sheriff's office, walked to the dispatcher office window and asked for my brother. He was told that he was off-duty and unavailable. Then he walked back to his vehicle, retrieved the SKS, and proceeded to shoot into the dispatch office, thankfully missing everyone.
Then he started towards a nearby church.
A young CCWer heard the shots and approached the area with his 1911, saw the man with the rifle from about 25 yards away and challenged him. He was shot and wounded.
The man then went into the empty church and killed the janitor cleaning the church after hours. He then proceeds up to the steeple where he had a view of the sheriff's office building down below and watched the responding city and county officers come racing up a few moments later.
He shot and killed a city cop and wounded my brother's buddy, a sheriff's deputy, as they were getting out of their vehicles, having no idea that there was a sniper about 100 yards away in the church.
The POS eventually killed himself.
A few years later, another POS with severe mental issues went on a shooting spree in the same town and killed three people, including someone in a fast-food place where my stepdad, brother, and I would meet for lunch occasionally.
So yes, my area is a pretty nice place, but there have been some not so nice shootings lately that are nowhere near the typical scenarios for self-defense shootings.