Their husbands, one a surgeon with good shooting skills, seemed almost patronizing when he accepted my advice to avoid any areas where there appeared to be crowds of people gathering unexpectedly. The other, an advanced degree scientist, gun owner and shooter could only respond, "We don't go over there very often."
Why do people feel unrest is something that only happens somewhere else?
I imagine it's more a case of you trying to tell two obviously intelligent people to "be careful" when they already know it without being told
You see it as "not worrying" and they see it as "not worrying because they KNOW what to avoid without being told"