Do you feel safe in the RGV?

I can't imagine the terror that the couple shot at while spending a day at Falcon Lake felt.  It's scary to be so close to all this violence.  While I've heard of many people killed because of the drug wars from the news or friends of friends of friends, I haven't personally felt the impact of the war.  I feel like I'm in buble--terrible things are happening all around me but I'm not involved in it in anyway, thankfully.  I feel horrible that these tragedities are happening to other people, and there is nothing I can do to help.  I just wish the violence would end.