"I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like." And I wish you could better gr

"I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like." And I wish you could better grasp just how big and diverse America is. :) There are parts with terrible problems that make for scary headlines, but those parts are not in any way representative of very large swaths of the country. Where I live there is essentially zero violence (of any kind). We don't live with perpetual feelings of danger or paranoia - heck, we often forget to lock our doors at night.