[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

Seems a bit much. US is a safe country.

Originally Posted by mikephoen

Sure, compared to Afghanistan I guess. But it's the 36th most dangerous country in the world according to this ranking:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...rous-countries

It's way behind anywhere in Western Europe. It's barely ahead of Saudi Arabia.

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

I assume he's not vacationing in gangland Baltimore. The worry was random attacks which is a rare risk.

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Incidence of Canadians being assaulted or killed while abroad (per 100,000 visits):

India 7.5

Jamaica 3.6

Mexico 2.1

Cuba 1.5

Italy 0.8

World average 0.5

UK 0.3

U.S. 0.03


https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/how-sa...broad-1.975932

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Numbers shake out differently looking at murders only. Five year tally by country is:

Mexico 25
U.S. 22
Jamaica 17
Philippines 13
Burkina Faso (!) 10

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/more-c...road-1.5734627

U.S. rate is still very low when you consider the enormous number of trips (20 million a year) while the number in Jamaica is alarming considering the much small number of visits (300k). No idea what the heck was going on in Burkina Faso.

None of this seems to logically be consistent when you see news of things like the below:

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Just coming in, 16 shot and 2 kids confirmed dead an a Texas elementary school.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elem...ry?id=84940951

I don't think Texas elementary schools or concerts on the Las Vegas strip are equivalent to Baltimore gang land.

I think anytime people try to go on and wax poetic about the state of America and how safe things are, within the juxtaposition of the most guns per capita and gun deaths per capita and then advent of mass shootings (on basically a daily basis), things aren't adding up here.