The US is not a particularly violent place for the majority of people in it. There are certainly parts of it that are, but chances are someone reading hacker ne

The US is not a particularly violent place for the majority of people in it. There are certainly parts of it that are, but chances are someone reading hacker news would never end up in those parts. I've lived in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, even Flint, Michigan and have even been to some of the less nice parts of those areas. I've never been mugged or beat up or even threatened really. I've had my car broken into once or twice in 50 years, but I was not in or near it at the time. The image Hollywood projects is extremely distorted. I've even known lots of people who owned or really loved guns, and none of them has ever done anything violent with them as far as I know.