[Neoshadow42]

I would be considerably more worried about being incorrectly detained by ICE and getting caught up in that nonsense than gun violence.

Simultaneously, you're getting a lot of Americans in the comments talking about how the risk of gun-violence is near-zero and nothing to be worried about. There have been 58 mass shootings in the U.S. In Europe, there have been 2. Statistically, going from Europe to the U.S, your risk of being caught up in a shooting ARE significantly higher.

Is that still worth not travelling for? In reality, 58 mass shootings in 3.5 months across that number of population centres, the risk is incredibly, incredibly low.

But is it still significantly higher than Europe? Yes, absolutely.

Should you worry about the U.S violence getting "worse"? No. But it is more violent, statistically, than Europe.

As I said though, I'd be more worried about ICE nonsense.

[Izkata]

Meanwhile I see this focus on guns as very misleading. For example, Sweden may not have much gun violence, but they've reached having bombings almost every day.

[hmmm-i-wonder]

I hadn't heard about Sweden so went and looked it up. In Jan 2025 there were 30 blasts, over 1 a day!!!

Facts are violence is an indication of issues, not the issue itself. Poverty, unhappiness, lack of opportunities, combined with dissatisfaction with the govt increased by the never ending waves of propaganda from both sides.

In that light, the US and Sweden both are facing serious social crises. Solely blaming the tools doesn't even start to understand the causes of the social issues nor gets us anywhere near solving them.