It’s dangerous. People are a 35 times more likely to be killed by guns than my country.
I won’t deny the fact that gun violence happens here in the US, but statistics can be deceiving when you’re dealing with very small numbers. The article you linked gives a rate of 4.5 per 100,000 people in the US. That would put your country at around 0.13 per 100k.
Out of 100k, the difference between 4.5 and 0.13 is still exceptionally small. So small that your chances of being shot if you live here your entire life are negligible. If you visit for a week or two, your chances are statistically insignificant. If you look at homicides by any means, not just firearms, this becomes even closer.
So while what you say is accurate, you have to look at what it actually means. The United States is not “dangerous” by any stretch of the imagination. 35 multiplied by almost nothing is still almost nothing.
Says only nation where mass shootings occur daily.
You’re full of shit. Redefining “dangerous” doesn’t make things less dangerous. 35x as dangerous will always be 35x as dangerous. Drop your stupid, shitty numbers, reframe it as 1 in 1,000,000 vs. 1 in 22,000. That seem like enough of a difference? It should, if you’re sane. It won’t, if you’re a gun psychopath or just an argumentative asshole.
You’re using “the entire US”. Well, tourists don’t visit “the statistical entire US”. They go to cities, where the people and things are. If you’re too fucking stupid to understand there are places in the US that are DANGEROUS, that’s not my problem.
Please visit some of these dangerous places. Stay forever, I mean the odds are in your favor, right?
What that data fails to properly explain is that outside of a few counties you are basically never going to see a gun homicide in the US. The city I live in has some of the highest gun crime in the country, but it is almost exclusively in a few small areas that tourists would never really go anywhere near.
Of our yearly gun homicides ~82% of it is African Americans killing other African Americans. Often in gang related disputes in very specific areas in a couple of states.
Depending on where someone is visiting they are likely much safer here than in many other countries on average.
Statistics are a wonderful thing, but it’s important to fully understand the data rather than just applying that average to the entire united states without any nuance.
Mississippi had a gun death rate of 29.6 per 100k in 2022.
Rhode Island had a a gun death rate of 3.1 per 100k in 2022.
Both those numbers include suicide by gun and suicide has outpaced homicide for at least the last 40 years.
Another thing to note is that the USA over all has lower gun homicide rates today than back in 1970s.
For comparison Jamaica had 44.7 gun death per 100k in 2022.
The Bahamas had 28.5 per 100k in 2022.
Plenty of people still feel comfortable traveling to those places year round.
The fact you had to name Jamaica and Bahamas, both incredibly poor developing nations as comparison to get remotely close to our gun violence is proof you should not come here.
…did you read my comment at all? I very clearly stated that those are popular tourist destinations that people are still visiting all year round. As in people don’t find THOSE places too dangerous to visit why should they worry about america?
Both of those places are significantly more dangerous than the overwhelming majority of America as I very clearly explained in the rest of my comment.
I don’t think you read my comment at all. If you did you certainly didn’t understand anything I said.
Try again.
If you don’t see the enormous double standard you applied in your last comment, then there’s nothing more for anyone to discuss here.
Enlighten me. What “enormous” double standard did I apply in my last comment?
Being detained upon arrival and immediately being sent back (if you’re lucky) is just the start.
You could get put in jail for no reason and risk being sent to a concentration camp.
Vaguely gestures at everything.
yeah. 2025 is just not the best timing for that activity.
You need me to pick just one?
Trump
Guns
Trump supporters with guns
Let’s put it this way, I’m a mid 50s Cis white dude … so about as safe as one could get. And I would feel weird about leaving the country if I had to get back in. At the very least I would not have my own phone on me if I travelled.
*Gestures broadly*
Everything happening right now.
Bit of a shithole innit
Disclaimer: this depends a lot on where you are travelling from, I’m just relaying things I’ve heard from friends
If you are travelling with women, they (and you) are likely to be questioned to check for “sex trafficking” reasons. You are likely to have to strip for no other reason than the officer wanting to (regradless of the previous point) If you don’t pass as white, or dare speak a latin language, you are likely to face hostility. The food is bad
I’m sorry. I only downvoted you for slandering our food. The rest is accurate.
Bruh as someone who grew up in the US then left, US food is trash. It’s loaded full of artificial dyes and corn syrup. You know how Mexican Coke tastes better than American Coke? That same principle applies to everything, eg: compare Canadian Heinz (ironically made in the US) to US Heinz. The US is slowly poisoning its whole population in the name of profits
Anecdotally, I also don’t know exactly why, but produce seems fresher where I live now. Produce bought in the US always goes bad in like 2-3 days. Also our eggs only cost a few bucks.
I will absolutely slander food in the US
Ok, fair.
In my defense, I wasn’t thinking of mass market brands, but things like korean bbq taco trucks, NY style pizza, smoked beef brisket, cajun seafood boil, pumpkin pie, and other crazy fusions created by a mingling of the worlds immigrants making due with they can get.
Unfortunately… gestures everywhere
Hey now. I actually like pineapple on pizza.
I guess if you look brownish, it can be a risky endeavour, depending on where you want to visit exactly. But what do I know, I’ve never been there
Dude just open a newspaper it’s plainly obvious why not.
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Spending your vacation money in the US is sending some of that money to Donald Dump and friends.
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Seeing how tourists have actually been detained by ICE, it’s not even a hypothetical, I’d say the chances of it happening to you is at the very least nontrivial. Given the choice of countries for my vacation, I choose the one where the chances of that are, in fact, trivial.
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If you’re white or have a posh Northern European accent, then you’ll probably be ok.
If you’re brown and have a Southern or Eastern European accent, then you’ll be considered “Mexican”. And possibly mistreated as the hired help or favored slave.
If you’re black, you may get shot by police or persecuted by ICE.
It can happen to anyone, even an Australian police officer who married a man in the army.
