Now imagine you live with that kind of pressure all the time. I kinda understand that people snap. I bet everything that if people had less to worry about money - healthcare, university, losing jobs etc. there would be less shootings. But hey maybe something is gonna change when the tourists stop coming. Then suddenly it's about losing money and not about these annoying citizens.
I have to totally agree with you, because I have to honest I have those exact some reservations about going to the USA 🇺🇸. It’s a shame but I know I just could not relax or feel totally safe. The biggest worry aside of guns and mass shootings for me is ending up broke if I need medical treatment in the USA 🇺🇸 if I ever needed to receive medical treatment.
I’m Australian and the thought of visiting a country where 400 million guns are in circulation, is a non starter for me. Afghanistan sounds as appealing
To be fair you Aussies have gone the complete opposite way , not only giving up your guns but your basic human rights to "smart "scientists, doctors, corrupt politicians who tell you what's right for you and big pharma. Australia has now become a police state for normal people , And you thought Nazi Germany was bad !
We have a lot of Afghans here in Europe using knives, not as deadly as an assault rifle, but both kill. We also have a lot of wonderful Afghans. But it always seems the murders are by Afghans with knives.
No matter what gun laws they set there anymore, the damage is already done as the weapons are out there in civil possessions already. Very sad if you ask from me.
@@CabinFever52 well I don't know where in Europe you live, but that aint problem in Finland. Sure knife violence exist, but it is mostly drunk finns acting stupid. And with knives you rarely have the opportunity to kill multiple people, it is not that easy actually to kill people with knives. Lot easier to save people from knife wounds than from some gunwounds that tear the flesh like mini bombs. Kind of doubt knife violence is that common as you make it seem or that it is specifically related to Afghan immigrants.
When you check the wikipedia page for school shootings in Germany you find 7. The first one in that list was in 1913. When you check the list of school shootings in the US it asks you if you want it to display 500 per page.
Main reason I would never visit the UsofA is guns held by Americans, 94% of which prove how stupid they are every time they open their mouths on the subject of guns.
In most countries, kids learn to look left, right and then left again before crossing the road. In the US, they learn to run in a zigzag to avoid bullets.
And in the US children are taught, from kindergarten, what to do when there's an active shooter in their school - how to lock/barricade doors, hide and stay silent. Never did I have to teach that in my classrooms here in Australia.
@@baylessnow in the UK it hasn't been "look right look left look right again for over 50 years !!" that wasn't/isn't the Green cross code that was called Kerb Drill ... The green cross code is "look all around and listen "
Thats actually what we Europeans said to the immigrants from Europe before 1776. Take a gun, because of the threats of of natives and an army cant fight against the guerrilla tactics. They were told they would have to defend their property themselves. So in a way we europeans are to blame for the gun culture over the pond.
The level of gun violence, the treatment of the public by your police, the treatment of visitors by your immigration staff and TSA are some of the things that will always deter me from ever returning to the USA.
True, the immigration staff. I went alone with a friend to the USA when I we were 14, to be in a host family for 2 weeks. It was scary as hell! We were all in a huge group with men standing above us not just yelling but screaming at us (so of course we couldn't understand). It was not because it was noisy, no, they actually looked very angry. I was pushed and yelled at by a man because I had stepped on a yellow line I didn't see (it was crowded) and I eventually got separated from my friend in the confusion. Then I was sent to a man (seating wayyyy above to make it intimidated) who would ask me some questions. I couldn't understand much because he was speaking so fast and using difficult words. He saw that and his genius answer was to repeat the same thing but yelling and being angry. I understood I had to face a webcam for a picture and then got my fingerprints like a prisoner! Then finally we arrived at the luggage (in a complete mess). The experience made me felt very unwelcomed, like if I was an illegal migrant. If that's the kind of treatment a white young girl who did nothing suspicious and with all authorizations get.... I'm scared to imagine how others are treated, adults, non white people, people with a "strange" name , actual illegal migrants etc..
@@SuperLn1991yes they make you feel like a criminal with the mugshot photo and fingerprints, oh and if you have a name or last name related with a criminal they act like you are and know that 😮. Only for vacations is fine to go there. I recomend to visit México my homeplace we are nice and friendly here 😊🎉
The only negative experience I had with immigration into the US either on business travel or as a tourist was that there have been like two thirds of the counter for US citizens, most of them empty and one third for visitors with a three hour queue. They did not manage to or want to redistribute people to get that queue shorter (witnessed that only once in Miami where they distributed people to whatever counter was available). But reading the sign "Welcome to the USA" overhead made you think like "yeah sure..." When it comes to the staff, I have seen TSA staff sending people in a quite loud and demanding tone to stay in a line or queue in another line, but otherwise they would not have been heard. At the immigration itself, I always found officers beeing between seemingly bored to death to super friendly, no one angry or shouting yet.
What always annoys me is when people try to justify gun crime in the US with knife crime in the UK, when actually even knife crime per capita is higher in the US than in the UK
Also knife crime doesn't mean knife violence. Carrying a knife is a crime here, so 90% of our knife crime is possession. In America it isn't a crime so almost all their knife crime is either violent or aggressive, this makes the stats that show our knife crime being even close to theirs very very far from representative.
You can buy an AK-47 in the UK (albeit limited to manual fire .22 calibre) along with pretty much any other type of gun. We just don't have the gun culture of the US though so it's rarely seen.
I think it's easier to get an AK in a former Warschaupact country now part of the EU then it is to get one in America. But yes, the American obsession with guns is ridiculous and idiotic but that's what you get if the majority of people mentally never left the late 1800's and early 1900's. They think they are free and their ancestors left the "old continent" to be free of kings and queens build their own life in freedom only to be screwed ten times harder by super capitalists that treat them worse then said kings and queens did.
True. If somebody attempts a mass shooting but is bad at aiming and only hits, let’s say one person, Americans might not consider it a mass shooting… 😢
I thought the same thing. I'm not sure about the legal definition in my country (France) but what I can say is that the last mass shooting I remember happened 9 years ago. Having even two of them in the same year would put the whole country in shambles... We suffered a series of terrorist attacks in 1995 and everyone was terrified, it took a long time for us to feel safe again. And there were much less tourists coming to Paris (No. 1 destination in the world) in the years after these events, so it doesn't surprise me at all that people don't want to go to the US where mass shootings happen daily !
@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia as far as I am aware all we have had here in England is the odd isolated incident. And all quite unique, not multiple people resorting to the same thing.
I travel a lot for work. In all other countries I am not afraid or worried about getting sick. A colleague in the US for a conference with his wife. They were walking across a road - empty of cars and a policeman pulled a gun on them, for walking across a road! You call it Jaywalking, a crime that does not exist in free countries. In the UK you can talk to a policeman and even joke with them. They are not afraid of the general public. An australian woman called the police in the US, when they cam she ran up to tell them what the problem was - they shot and killed her. In free countries, we do not have to live in fear and learn to run in a zig zag, no lockdown drills in schools. I am never going back to the USA, it is worse than other places I go to.
Of all the things that didn't happen, this one didn't happen the most. Now I know you're all full of shit. No one gets a gun pulled on them for jaywalking, its a minor infraction, and a ticket with a small fine is the most you would get. And cops don't just shoot people for no fucking reason. You watch too much news and don't know the context of it all.
about the jaywalking, that is indeed a crime ingermany for example. if u get caught by the police while crossing a red light, u will get in trouble.which is perfectly fine to me , im german btw .
@hanswurst-ej3qj however, it's highly unlikely that they will shoot you, or otherwise question you for jaywalking whereas in the USA walking appears to be a crime
@@hanswurst-ej3qjIch hab das tatsächlich vergessen, weil es hier in Frankfurt trotzdem regelmäßig von allerlei Menschen gemacht wird und die Polizei meistens besseres zu tun hat. Deutsche Polizisten sind super freundlich. Diese ganzen Geschichten mit US Polizisten hören sich wie Albträume an.
I’m an Aussie who went to the US back in 1996. Even then I was astounded by the armed security guards in shops etc. I actually had a security guard in a museum reach for his gun because he felt I was too close to an exhibit! We also haven’t forgotten our citizens who have been murdered there - one young athlete shot as he was jogging and a woman shot by the police when she called to report an intruder. I’ve recently travelled to Asia and felt totally safe there. Add in the broken health system and the unhealthy food and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back to the US.
Two European countries which compare with The US in terms of gun ownership are Switzerland and Serbia. But no European country has the same level of gun-related crime. It is not the level gun ownership that is the problem, it is the fact that Americans do not have any self-control or discipline with guns
In Switserland you spend years serving in the military. Then you stay in an active reserve with you service rifle at home. Those Swiss 'gunowners' are in fact what a "well armed militia" should look like, not the bunch of amateurs you see in the US.
I was in the states twice and one time I was with friends in sanfran at night going from pub to pub. Then we heard shots. Everyone went down on the ground, except us. We stood there as statues. A minute later, all went back to normalcy. Not us, we were completely in shock. After a while we were able to walk, nervously. Then… again shots… we lied on the ground immediately. After that, we went to the hotel and drank a beer in safety. The next morning, we ate a breakfast at a bar or something. Asked the bartender if he heard about the shooting. “Where was that?” he asked. “Just around the corner” we replied. “Oh, that’s odd. Usually it’s one block further” he said and went back cleaning up and whistled a happy song. Unbelievable, it’s simply added to culture there. How can one feel safe there?
@@blablubb4553 Yea it was. But to see how normal this awful phenomenon is to americans was the real shock to me. Makes you paranoid I guess, therefore so many people vote for conspiracy Donnie, I think
It's not just guns. It's the ability to get sued for everything, go bankrupt because you ended up in a hospital, etc. On top of that you can add hostility towards tourists from TSA at the airports (I know they're not my friend, but they're first contact with USA upon landing, and that contact and feeling is utter crap). Please, also add that walking in almost all USA (except some big cities) is non existent. Also going out after dark is not recommended. You can get shot by police if you don't obey orders, I mean, I don't know what customs do you have and why I need to be afraid and scared with cops? And yes, what do you think rest of the world thinks about people who murder kids in schools (I don't care who does it, gun culture enables it)?
Yes the treatement from immigration is scarey and excedingly unwelcoming - I'm sure it didn't use to be like that back in the 80's when I first travelled to the USA. Must be 9-11 that changed everything.
@@tonycook1624 thing is, other places in the world had attacks happen from shitheads yet their airports don't look down upon every outsider that enters, so that can't be it. There's a whole plethora of issues that they've got in the US... I also hear they were one of the last to start removing lead from their gasoline, paint... Though I'm pretty sure not all the piping underground hasn't been changed up yet either and that stuff can make you more aggressive and making you less able to do critical thought as you get older.
My family and I visited East Canada and crossed the border at Niagara to visit New England. OMG I think it took about 3 hours, I had to have my photo and fingerprints taken, and had to pass an interview in a room full of extremely grumpy cops with less humour than a corpse. There was only 3 of us, and one other family (2 parents, 2 young kids), the whole time. The poor other family were basically denied entry anyway as the man had an Iranian (I believe) passport - they were trying to go to Disneyland, the kids were in tears, it was so sad to watch. Interviewer to me: Why do you want to come to the US Me after 2 hours of waiting: [internal thoughts = don't be sarcastic, don't be sarcastic] *dry voice* Holiday [simultaneous internal thoughts = I don't want to come here any more... wait I said that with my inside voice right]
Also at immigration desk (I think in Florida) Immigration woman: *stern voice* I see you've been to Egypt and Russia? My mum: *gushing* Oh yes! We saw the pyramids and.. Me: Mum she's asking if you're a terrorist Mum: Oh. Oh!
It's not the guns that are the issue, it's the fact that too many Americans use firearms as a first resort in minor disputes. The idea that a drunken idiot can openly carry a lethal weapon around and use it in self defence under the idiotic Stand Your Ground legislation is terrifying.
Wow, you really know nothing about the laws here and are running your mouth like you're some sort of law expert. Fucking get a clue and stop spreading misinformation.
That's the problem. people getting shot for using the wrong driveway, going for a run, asking for help. Assume theyre armed and shoot first.@@SovermanandVioboy
Something that was mentioned briefly on this was school shootings , this is far more worrying for the civilised world . Just for context since 2008 Canada has had 2 school shootings ; France 2 Germany one Japan 0 Italy 0 UK 0 United States 288
Honestly, even as a licensed firearms owner, there's no way I'd visit the US due to gun violence and mass shootings. Just getting Firearms Insurance here, it covers me Worldwide, except North America, because its so bad there you have to have separate insurance. Tells you everything really.
Perhaps you should be concerned about knife violence, running crowds over with a van, violence....come to America legally, you will be protected and safe, from out of control state, and federal government!
As a Brit, based in England, who has worked for an American company for 25 years, and visited America on more occasions than I can count, I can tell you that the threat of guns has become more and more real to those of us visiting the US. Years ago I wouldn't have given it a second thought; we don't have that gun culture here in the UK, and I took that naiveté to the US - i.e. I simply didn't think about it. Last week, I had to take an elearning course on 'how to deal with a mass shooting in an office building'. I thought they had assigned it in error. Nope. They assigned it to everyone globally who might travel to the US. Very scary.
I've spent a lot of time in the US and, like you, took my European naiveté to the US. I didn't think about gun crime either. One summer, when visiting an American friend in Colorado, as I was waiting in the car with her two children (ages 12 & 9) while she popped into 7/11 (convenience store) I was shocked by the anxiety her son (8 year old) was visibly in. When I asked him why he was worried he said that he was worried for his mother's safety because 7/11 shops are known for being targets for gun robbery. I don't know any 8 year old in Europe who worries every time his mum pops to the shops because she runs the risk of possibly becoming a victim of a shooting. Appalling. In this video they're trying to make it out like gun violence are occurrences. I suppose they should define "rare".
How is that not scary? @@TheRockkickass Just the fact that you have to learn something, means it could happen, right? That's why you do fire safety drills, right? Well, in Europe we're never, ever, ever have a drill for gun violence. So if you need to take one, just because you might visit the USA, that does not show confidence by your company that you won't get into a shooting...
There is nothing America has that I want. I’m too old for Disney Land, not that I ever wanted to go there. Refuse to eat the plastic cheese and carcinogenic food, too old to run in zig zag to avoid bullets, not into watching haemorrhoid cream adverts ever five seconds, whilst trying to decide, out of million TV channel what not to watch, refuse to converse with ignorant individuals, who wouldn’t know where to locate the UK from on a map if their lives depended on it. In short, I am quite happy to watch America on the news and marvel at the antic of its citizens, from the safety of my armchair. Or in other words, thanks but no thanks.
Locate the UK on a map? I'm a teacher and, several years ago (more than a decade), I read on a OECD study that more than 50% of american 9th graders didn't know how to locate THE USA on a world map! A country that's half a continent (well, a subcontinent, North America)!
Seconded from Ireland, and if I wanted to visit Disney I'd visit EuroDisney. Apparently it is much better than the Florida version and the staff are also much much nicer to visitors.
Saying thats terrible while laughing and smirking about it shows just how much of a joke americans think this. Which proves nothing will ever change because they just dont get how appalled the rest of the world is by this utterly bizarre “right”
Let me put it this way: I'm half Italian half Spanish. I've travelled a lot. My mum has friends and a cousin in the USA. I've been asked plenty of times "why don't you go live there for a few months, as an experience". I'm diabetic. That's why.
also cops ... i might not act the right way ..since im used to trained police in europe and might get shot for resisting when i ask a question.. the whole vibe in society is also so not nice i almost lived there im glad i choose not to stay ..pff being 21 in the usa with a dutch mindset and a brown skin ..i wouldnt be alive now
Visiting a country where you can get shot just for ringing the doorbell or driving up the wrong driveway,is a country i would never ever do. And this actually happened in your country
No feeling shown for those lost..just annoyed and dispassionately debating how many lives lost constitutes a "mass shooting" ? That's a messed up society right there.
Im from the UK and we see a "US school shooting" or "US Mass shooting" headline just about once every one or two weeks. On average, UK police only discharge their firearms less than 10 times a year, and only a small percentage of our cops are armed. Compared to the hundreds of times per year in the US, it does make the UK seem a lot safer.
I'm Finnish. In Finland after you've completed your military service, you can buy a gun. Many people hunt and own guns here, but I still would never visit the United States. I'm afraid of the nature that US citizens show when talking about guns. Many that I've seen talk and argue like it's a birthright to hold and shoot a gun. That's scary. That's why I won't visit USA. I can't trust the people to not shoot me. My problem isn't with the guns, but the way that anyone can access them. I can't trust that nobody in the US would shoot me if they had the chance. That's why I won't visit. I'm in high school.
Felt almost like he was trying to argue on both sides, "America is by large one of the safest countries in the world." juxtaposed with "A lot of states are loosening their gun laws.".. (Did you notice that he was also emphasizing on "*They* don't understand.." As if to shift blame?)
Not evn just violence. Even before the recent wave of attacks on women’s rights, the US already had third-world levels of obstetric & neonatal mortality, cancer mortality, and mortality as a proportion of the people with chronic issues like diabetes.
Yeah, here in Finland we've ever had like 2 school shootings, but few days ago some 23yo woman was planning a school shooting in my home town, but police were able to intercept it in time. Its been on front pages of every single newspaper for several days. That is taken very seriously here.
Tbh as a European, the gun violence isn't the only thing that makes me have second thoughts about ever visiting. It's the seemingly ever increasing polarised politics with people on one side sounding like they just escaped an insane asylum and the aggressive nature of your police that scare me more.
Guns. Ultra-processed & GM foods. Tipping (ffs, pay them a decent wage!) Lack of public transport. Cost of Travel Insurance. Christofascists. It's a shame. I was in the States in the 70s. What a beautiful and varied country! It's sad that I can no longer feel safe in visiting.
I have a cousin who married an American woman, and moved over there. He lasted a little over a decade before he had to come home. Helicopters flying about at night, gun shots going off, working seven days a week, appalling health care, terrible food and next to no public transport. Were just a few of the things he mentioned. There were plenty more. Oh yes, also came home as there's no state pension in America either. Land of the free😂😂
Not just the guns and gun violence that makes me hesitate, also the healthcare, standard of driving, lack of mandatory nation l vehicle inpections, COPS.... to name a few!
Completely true dude. Guns, Political obsessed nut bags, religious extremism, health system I would not want to get mixed up in, extreme levels of violence everywhere. HAs completely stopped me ever thinking of stepping foot in USA. Give me Europe, South America and Canada any other day
40 year old French. I've never seen a civilian with a gun, except for hunters who have rifles. Just... don't go in the wood during hunting season and you're good.
I visited the US many years ago. And it was a very memorable trip. I understood that I'm too much of an European to ever come back. I never understood the way of living or this very specific outlook on life most Americans have. And although it was in general a nice holiday, it opened my eyes to obvious problems that were and are conceived total normality there. I just hope for the best, because coming November 2024 I see a very big problem ahead that will unfortunately affect the whole world.
In Australia the only drills we have in schools are fire drills. There are no active shooter drills. I cannot imagine raising a child in a country where a child has to know what to do if someone enters a schools and wants to kill them. What kind of childhood is that? Yes children need to know about stranger danger when they are outside school but not in school!
In NZ we had fire drills and earthquake drills! Couldn’t imagine doing one as a child because of some insane person having access to a gun who wants to murder children.
It must be even more frustrating for you Ozzy's, you had a period where mass shootings started happening and did what was needed to protect your people and put an end to such atrocities. Now you have Americans claiming that the exact things Australia did will not stop shootings and will only benefit criminals tryna kill you 🤦♂️🤷🏼♂️
When you’re worrying about how you define a mass shooting you know you have a problem. The possibility of being shot and killed never crosses my mind in the U.K. if I’m in a supermarket or restaurant but it definitely does when I’m in America. 😢
Right?! Anyone shooting anyone randomly in public is absolutely horrifying. For the person attacked and anyone exposed to the incident directly or indirectly. Even if it is "just" one death. Someone was shot. I don't know why we need to discuss the definition at all.
Australian here and have been to the US twice, firstly in 2014 and again in 2017. We decided to go despite our reservations and were hyper-vigilant the entire time we were there because we knew that anyone could have concealed weapons on their person. It wasn't helped by a total stranger on our first day in Alaska, hearing our accents as we talked to each other while we waited at a pick up point for a shuttle bus, asking us where we were from and then immediately asked what we thought of President Trump. When we replied that we were visiting on holidays and didn't discuss politics, he became aggressive in his attitude, insisting we answer his question and becoming increasingly agitated, eventually forcing us to walk away quickly and enter a nearby store as we felt so unsafe. It set the tone for the entire trip to Alaska. It was certainly worse than it was in 2014. You can't simply relax . We'll never go back.
@@intensemint7800 We knew that before we went, but we didn't expect the level of aggression towards foreign tourists who were being polite while just waiting for a bus. Our visit to the US in 2014, including "red" states and concealed carry, etc., had nowhere near that level of rudeness and outright intimidation as we experienced in 2017.
@@heatherharvey3129 I suspected it when that orange dude came in office, that it would have a lot to do with how openly his supporters started to display animosity towards foreigners. I'm certainly not in a hurry to go to US either, though NYC would be an awesome place to visit.
I've never seen a gun outside of service personnel or a Specialist Police Officer in public . In the UK. guns just aren't a part of our culture . The most shocking thing about this is they appear to see it as a media problem .
Same in Austria or Germany. Police carries guns but I never saw one in use. Only once when there was a big(?) money transport and some officers with machine guns at the entrance to the bank.
I've seen an automatic assault rifle held by a military guard during an open day at our military airbase (just at the entrances & exits, nowhere else on the base). It however was loosely in his hands diagonally pointing to the ground, which was not at all threatening to anyone not looking to cause problems.
I've seen armed police lots of times in the UK. There are guns on the streets here just not exactly a common occurance but the police are equipped to take out such threats thankfully.
@@toddlerj102 Every police force in the UK has a firearms section, or access to one. Most of the larger city based police forces have a rapid reaction armed response vehicle on patrol 24/7.
I'm from the UK so guns of any sort are not something I would ever see on the street unless it's by the police guarding anything connected with the Royal family. The fact that in America, people can walk around with guns openly or even a concealed weapon is terrifying. It just takes someone with a short fuse to get upset for any reason and right there is a major incident kicking off! There's gang shootings in broad daylight, drive by shootings, store robberies. Any one of these could take out innocent people. That's without all the trigger happy police! So no - I won't be visiting the USA anytime in this lifetime.
I’m from Sweden & went to school in Louisiana in 2012-2013 & now that I’m aware of the US gun violence I won’t go back until you have federal gun control
Honestly? I considered visiting the US last year, going to California. One of the factors that put me off was the guns. That and actually getting around the city without a car.
As a Dutch person, I can tell you the thought of visiting the US scares the shit out of me exactly due to this. The easy access to firearms, coupled with how rude and violent the police is, is the largest reason I'll never visit the US. I'd love to see the large amount of varied natural landscapes there, and visit certain musical venues, but not at the potential cost of being shot.
"When I go to a big event I am on alert" The worst thing I think can happen to me when I go to a big event is been pickpocketed or maybe a drunk-fight.
I visit the US to meet my friends over there, but I don’t feel safe there at all. In 2022 Germany had about 240 murders with a population of 83 million people, Chicago had 725 murders with a population 2.6 million There are more mass shootings across the states then murders in Germany. And there is nothing done about gun violence And then there is the distracted and bad driving. I don’t wanna shit on your country Ryan, but this looks bad. A lot of the cities people would like to go to have a higher number of murders then my country as a whole and that doesn’t look good.
Eh. At this point, the guns are only the cherry on top of the pile of reasons why I don't want to visit the US... right next to the omnipresent nationalism, the attitude towards religion, racism & homophobia, the impossibility to go anywhere without a car (mixed with the fact that people will try to kill you if you have a bicycle), **imperial unit system**, karens (I've had an actual karen from the US as an english teacher... it's *bad*), the fact that they don't have a proper demonym ("American" is their continent's demonym), the fact that they are supporting evil corporations... And, most importantly of all, the fact that many (if not the majority) of people in the US are ok with this situation, apparently.
I still remember the instructions when picking up the rental car in Miami. The nice lady at the counter just asked: Do you know how not to get shot? (1) Don't road rage (quote: cutting off can be life-threatening). (2) Keep your hands out of the window during police checks. (3) Only park in designated parking spaces. (4) Never enter or drive on private property (not even to turn around). As a German, I first looked for the hidden camera, but then realized that she was serious. On the way to the car, I wondered how much a Kevlar vest would cost...
"Its kinda annoying they don't have a standard for what a mass shooting is, so you get all those different numbers" That sentence is so massively revealing...you have to define...you have to count...you end up with many different numbers...yup...says it all...
Americans like numbers it's all about impressive numbers, reason they still use the imperial system. 10 feet sounds alot more impressive then 3 meters or 7000th of 3 seventh of an inch instead of 0.3mm or whatever that obsolete imperial measurement is. They cant count or make their minds up only numbers that sound impressive wether it's lives or feet.
Canadian woman here. I made friends with people in texas over the internet during the pandemic, talking about visiting in 2023. Shootings, changes in legislature especially concerning woman’s rights, the risks of bankruptcy for medical bills, all those things had me so anxious i told my friends i couldn’t see myself make the trip. Just thinking about the average person’s temper, smarts and wisdom, and knowing half the population is worse? Then adding the fact that all of those people could be carrying a gun? I would not be able to go out in public
I'm Aussie, and was supposed to go to Florida / Disneyland this coming June, with 3 girlfriend's. We unanimously decided it wasn't worth the worry (gun violence and governor Ron Desantis). So we're taking our tourist dollars to Disneyworld Japan in September instead. Where all 4 of us feel safer, and won't be looking over our shoulders - we're going on holiday to relax and enjoy, not to worry about if the next person we walk past is packing or not.
@@LovingLipgloss I've actually been twice before, but only on overnight layovers, on my way back home. My 3 friends haven't been before. So all 4 of us are looking forward to this trip big time. One of the silly things I'm really looking forward to, is seeing Mt Fuji coming into sight from the plane again. I'll never forget the first time I saw that epic view, it's absolutely amazingly beautiful 😊
The guy says that people from the UK cannot fathom how a sophisticated wealthy country like the U.S. continues to maintain the status quo when it comes to your gun laws. As a person from the UK, I can tell you that I don't find the U.S. sophisticated in the least. In fact I visited the U.S. twice in 2022 (once to visit my aunt after my mother died, and once for my aunt's funeral a few months later) and I'm not put off visiting at all. The food, the culture, the politics, the religiousness, the urban landscape, and the wild areas and many of the people are entirely unsophisticated and that's a major draw for me. I have nothing against guns either, but your laws and the way your police enforce them is completely bonkers! Any country that could elect Tronald Dump as President has got to look at itself and think "How the heck can this happen!?”
I love how he basicly goes «Yeah, we got tons of shootings, buuuut crimes aren’t that much higher». Yeah, sorry, but i would rather have something stolen, etc than to be shot. The reasoning is so bad. Yeah, i would not want to visit because of guns, hospitals, and more..
@@princessperdita True, can’t stand all the hidden costs. Don’t really like how they’ve made it so you «have» to drive a car most places. Just love to be able to walk around and don’t mind public transport (don’t get me wrong, i’ve driven cars in 8 countries, but that was as a choice).
@@KurtFrederiksen depends on how you travel. I’ve never had a goal to drive, I prefer biking and hiking, or just sightseeing or all inclusive. And I don’t know many who’s driving a lot in other countries.
My brother from a young age wanted to live in a different country. Also for many years, he had a dream to go to the US and go on a road trip by car. So he lived in a few different European countries, because he could make more money there and also it was where he wanted to live. He was young, saved a good chunk of money and decided fuck it, YOLO and with a friend decided to have a vacation in the US. They rented a car and go for a one month on a road trip from Boston to Washington DC and back to New York. He did it 5 years ago. When he came back, he was excited about the experience he had, but also said he would not going to go back for more and he would never live there. So many places where he felt unsafe. He experienced more of them in a month than he had in 26 years living in 3 different European countries. Private property everywhere. There were a lot of social, nice people, but also people who acted deranged and overly aggressive. 3 years ago he came back for good back to live in our country. It is a small country by the Baltic Sea. When I asked why, he said that he realized, that despite what he could make more money elsewhere, or have more diverse experiences, but he never felt freer, safer, or more relaxed than living here. He said he never realized how beautiful our nature is and how much access we have to it. And how compacted and easily available and accessible every corner of our country is. You can just stop a car, go to a random forest pick a berry or mushrooms or wildflowers from a random field, and the owner if you come across one, 95 percent of the time will ask you who is the lucky lady instead of giving you a warning and even point you to the direction where "the pretty ones grows". Before living everywhere, he didn't realize simple things like that were a privilege and not a given. The US for me is a sight to see and experience because of its nature's beauty and shier scale of it. But society-wise it is dystopia. And with social media I hear about shootings in US very often, not even talking about homelessness, police brutality and corruption, medical and insurance system that is a crime on its own, going back on women's rights. Electing a person like Trump with his rhetoric as head of the state. US seems like a place you don't want to be in for a longer time. If I wanted to experience nature and the scale of it, I think I would just go to Canada instead.
The guns, the food, the medical situation, the fact no cars are tested for road safety, the fact you need a car, the lack of public transport, the police, the locals the cost of food, the lack of pubs, the lack of real beer,
American citizen here. I've lived in Europe for over 3 years. Yes indeed people here are reluctant to visit the US, and completely bewildered by the gun violence there, and by the way it's tolerated. It would never happen here. Also there's a difference between over-all level of crime and specific levels of gun violence. Typical crime levels aren't out of line in the US but gun violence and gun 'culture" (if you can call it that) is extraordinarily common compared to any other country I'm aware of.
Mass Shootings in Australia are defined as 2 or more victims and we stopped ours... The USA could do things to limit mass shootings but nothing is done.... So the only conclusion I can draw is the majority of people in the USA want mass shootings.... Otherwise something would have been done by now....
I was on vacation a few years ago in New York (I'm from Uruguay). I was hanging out with some friends at a bar, and I went out for a smoke. I had a beer in my hand. Not even five minutes passed before I had four cops around me (I'm not taller than 1.60 meters). They started yelling at me, and honestly, I forgot my English. Without understanding what was going on, I ended up telling them I didn't speak English because they wouldn't stop shouting. I took two steps back, and they put their hands on their guns. One of my friends lived in New York, and when she saw what was happening, she yelled at me, "Don't run." All because I had a beer in my hand. Nothing else happened, but years later, I had the opportunity to go work in Texas, and honestly, I decided not to go. If this happened in New York, which is a "liberal" state, I don't want to imagine what it's like in Texas. In my country, we're not used to that.
@@fatherson5907 Most people would not realise walking into the street holding a beer was breaking the law. I can't think of any country other than the US and some middle eastern countries where that would be the case.
And why would I constantly want to pay 15-20% tip on every bar/restaurant tab. I don’t want to get shot and I don’t want to get ripped off. Pay your service industry properly and ban automatic weapons as a bare minimum
@@pollyparrot8759 workers’ benefits, sick pay, holiday pay, maternity leave, where do you stop Polly. I live in the UK and it sure isn’t perfect but I count my blessings that I was born and live here and not in the US. And the vitriol in the politics, MAGA? GOP head cases like MTG, Gaetz and Boebert? I am not anti GOP, but I am anti lunacy. You need decent presidential candidates on both sides and the US deserves better than a geriatric Dem and self serving narcissist Rep. Listening to Trump makes me feel ill. Rant over!
YES ...I have been to America many times, driving from state to state and seeing more of America than most Americans. NOTHING beats the feeling of coming home, takeing an evening walk in the dark alone, as a woman....and feeling NO fear whatsoever 🥰
I said something similar before and the response I got was that I could sue the shooter for medical costs if they survived, or that there were charities I cold contact for help lmao@@UltraCasualPenguin
The fact that U.S. citizens have become so numbed to the amount of gun violence in their country that they even USE phrases like, "Yeah, but nobody has defined what constitutes a 'mass shooting' ...", or "but nobody has defined exactly what constitutes an 'assault rifle' ..." is enough to tell me that I don't want to be among people who would raise those arguments! The issue of the number of illegal immigrants flooding over the southern border of the USA really makes me grateful for being born in Canada. If people are willing to risk their lives to get into the place with the most civilian gun violence in the world, how bad must it be where they are coming from?!? I'll never enter the USA again.
@susanrogers2761 Me too. When Americans boast about "people wanting to come to the US", I scoff. The only people who want to come to the USA are those who are so desperate that _anything_ would be an improvement, and those who are already so stinking rich (yes, I'm looking at you, Rolling Stones) that they go for the tax breaks.
Where an incident would be on the news forever and every one would be shocked in outher countries, is just another day in America. Most shootings don't even make the local news over there. Not that they're that bothered
Yes - and I am an American who has been living in Europe for decades. I do hesitate to visit what used to be home because there are so many damned guns everywhere!
A English lady on vacation in America got into trouble and made the mistake of running towards a police car for help, the police shot and killed her. Look it up.
Also a New Zealander who was stranded with his car in the USA and called 911 for help. Didn't live to go back home, cause the police came to help him...
I am european and to be frank one of the main reasons why my family and I are not interested in going to the US is definately because of the US gun laws.
This is very real. I am from Europe. When I was younger, the US was on the list of places I wanted to travel, but now it’s on the definite-no list. The fact that you can become a police officer with only a few months education, while in my country it’s a 3-year bachelor’s degree tells me that there’s too little training over there to handle all those guns “on the loose”. And yes, what the lady says is true. We get the news here in Europe about the violence and the shootings. And when you add all the additives in food that we don’t do in Europe… I’m sorry, but there’s not many good advertisements for you right now.
A few months is optimistic some states (or counties?) have a mandatory training scheduled in days! Around three months is the national average in the USA.
My USA vacation in a short list: -Begged by the waiter that we should please tip properly because he hasn't earned much today. -Trying to cheat us when buying a motorcycle. -VERY close to being hit by a car in a traffic accident. -Robbery on the street and tries to snatch the motorcycle from me. -Road closed due to hurricane and no hotel found because "foreign motorcyclists" were not welcome. -Arrived at the booked hotel...which unfortunately was partially destroyed by the hurricane. -Contact with the police 4 times...harmless, but we also behaved very decently on vacation! But I also met a lot of warm, friendly and helpful people....and water was free 🎉 (but it tasted like an indoor pool) This all came to mind spontaneously, there were definitely more. Oh yes, ...minor thefts like shoes in front of the hotel room. That was in the early 90s... maybe things are more civilized in Florida now?😂😂😂
As a european who visited and actually got married in Las Vegas I would not go back because: -guns -food -infrastructure -hopitals -airlines -cops -People. although people are good and bad everywhere you go but fake kindness mixed with ignorance is what I personally didn't like.
I’m from Finland and I’m hesitant to travel to America because your police scare me. It’s easy to avoid places where there’s criminals but very hard to avoid places where there are trigger happy cops.
Brits have a joke for the united states whats the difference between the united states and yoghurt? Leave yoghurt 200 years alone and it developes a culture
Honestly three things. I dont wanna be shot by rando I dont wanna be poisoned by your trash food with all those chemicals And if ive got poisoned i dont wanna be in dept for rest of my life with your trashy health care system.
and your leaders have just signed you up to NATO !! I would say that's a lot more dangerous for your population than a quick visit to the USA ! Once the Globalists have started another war somewhere again , some of your sons and daughters will help to make up the numbers. Watch what you wish for ???
@@futurew0782 Det skjuts faktiskt mer per capita i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö än i stater som Vermont och Maine, där det är jättelätt för de flesta att skaffa ett vapen. I Vermont och Maine får hederliga människor bära vapen och skjuta tillbaka. Det är typiskt dumsvensken att försvara sin egen ofrihet.
As a non-American, I'd be less worried about guns and more worried about any injury. Or even food. If Americans can get sick by the food after being abroad for a hot minute, what's going to happen to me?
I have been saying this: As a kid going to America was like a dream. Wow America! Now you couldn't pay me to visit America. No way. The way you think about Venezuela, that's how many non-Americans think about the US now. I don't want to feel stressed or risk my life on vacation. "I do think America is one of the safest places in the world." Omg that was hilarious! LOL And what? They're losening gun laws?? Are they mad?!
I worked all over the world in 44 countries and in the US about 50 times and worked in 15 states in the exhibit industry. I never came as a tourist and I’ve just retired and will never come back to the US.
To answer the question in the title: Yes. Not everyone but I myself would and I know people who think similar. You get weapons everywhere, have to assume that everyone is armed and then you see quite a few videos how the police acts. It might convey a wrong picture of the US, I wouldn't know I never was there, but it IS conveying one, a bad looking one.
I felt anything but at ease when I visited family in the USA more than twenty years ago - way before all of those videos online, I just had news on paper and tv. And I felt especially ill at ease, when we encounter cops.
Talked to one of my neighbours about this exact thing a few days ago. He was a police officer with the German police for 42 years. We agreed that we both don't want to visit the US because of the crime, the politics and the US "justice" system. Neither he or I trust the US police or courts to do a good job and therefore the safety just isn't there. If in the US I'd worry as much about being killed as I'd worry about being wrongfully accused of a crime or being harassed by police.
I have family in the US and have an open invitations to visit New Jersey, New Orleans and Houston. Never have though and never will. It isn't just the gun crime, although that is a factor, but just general violence is far more common (knife crime in US cities runs at five to ten times the level it does in the worst of the UKs cities but rarely gets reported because the gun crime is so much worse, check the stats), the police do not seem trustworthy, educated or fit for purpose. And I don't want to fall ill in a country where people call for a cab rather than an ambulance.
The FBI has not set a minimum number of casualties to qualify an event as a mass shooting, but U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.
I think it’s „3, not including the shooter“. I looked up the numbers for Germany (with that and taking all killings, not just shootings) and I think it came down to about 2 per year - mostly parents killing their children and partner.
Canada too. We now live literally within sight of America, just across the St Lawrence river, but there's no way we will ever plan to visit there again. The last time we did, my son came to visit from the UK and we took him from Montreal to see Niagara. We opted to cross the border so as to drive back to Montreal through USA to give him his first experience of it. But the antagonistic treatment we received at the border post, trying to get approval for him to visit, and the time it took to do it, were just insane. We ended up sitting at the border post for longer than it took us to drive home. In Britain we often claim a "special relationship" with America. But that day my son was treated as a criminal until we could prove he wasn't. I'm never doing that again.
I've only been to New York city and that was 2 years after 9/11. Would I visit America again? Yes but with reservations. Would I go walking down a dark street? NO. Would I go walking down a dark street in the UK? NO. American has terrible gun crime but here in the UK we have knife crime, so many teenagers murdered, something unheard of years ago. Also shop lifting in the UK is an all time high with thieves going into shops armed with knives and machetes. My experience of NY was the shop assistants and waiters were very polite. Whilst queuing for the usual attractions we found ourselves chatting to Americans. We were shocked that they didn't have much knowledge of other countries and their place on the world map. Geography that is such basic knowledge to Europeans. On arrival at JFK airport we found the security staff very frightening and rude. We felt insulted being indigenous Britons whose Queen had the American national anthem played by the Guards band on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace. We thought we were USA's best friend and ally but it didn't feel like it at the airport. The final negative was the lack of getting a good meal unless we paid a lot of money, everything was fast food diners. We were so glad to get home and back to nutritional balanced meals. There are lots of places I would love to see in the USA so tea I would go back but like all countries you have to use common sense and take advise from the locals.
@@tomsommer8372 You're obviously American. And hence treat any foreigner as an enemy, being impressed that your Border Guards let him in at all. That wasn't the action of a "friendly" country. And the long delay was entirely due to the border guards being overstretched and understaffed. Your country was unimpressive from every standpoint - that's why we're never going back.
that special relationship is based on Uncle Sam saying "you are required to back us up" on any foreign relations junket and the poodles say "aye aye sir".
@@Kat-po3mn That's the mistaken "poodle" view. It should be much more that your best friend should be the one who feels free to point out your errors, your mistakes, your character flaws, to help you improve. That's the sort of special relationship that is healthy, and the one that helps cement a closer friendship. We had that once. No more, it seems.
I'm European. I lived in NYC in the 90s in a fairly sketchy part of B'klyn, drove a car from coast to coast back then and for the last few years have been coming to the US about 4-6 times a year. Things have changed and there are parts of the US I will not visit and it's not the places you might think - the big metro areas. I will not set foot in Florida or any of the southern or mid-western states where gun laws have been relaxed and division and hatred has bloomed simultaneously. Where you can "stand your ground" and "try that in a small town" results in daily additions to the statistics I don't want to be a part of. It's not about the mass shootings. It's the everyday, run of the mill, nothing to see here shootings I worry about.
The difference between most developed countries and the USA is an order of magnitude larger, and sometimes two orders of magnitude larger than the difference between the USA and Bahamas or Barbados.
Definitions of what a mass shooting is aside, would you rather visit somewhere where the chance of being shot is 6,150-1, like in America, or 2,347,863-1 like in the UK?
As a European I used to love visiting to the US up until the mid 2010s. HOWEVER, the growing gun violence in the US, the way police behaves, the way people are treated when entering the US, … No intention of going back in the near future. It's not just guns, but the shift in culture and the rift in society that is the biggest turn off for me.
Exactly, I'd be worried of my husband getting shot at for being black..I'd be scared of walking in the wrong neighborhood, or even the wrong street not to face any gang, dangerous or petty. I'd be freaked if I stopped to think that from any house, any window, any yard someone may have a gun and use it. Not that there isn't crime in europe but it is not a free market of guns and shots, so it is better.
Mate. I'm Australian. We're pretty easy going, but I wouldn't visit the US if I could, purely because the chances are pretty high that I could die in a random shooting.
The worst part about this is that it's not even that hard to get a gun in the UK. You get a free letter from your doctor saying you're not crazy, you go reserve a gun, go to the police and pay the license fee, you need someone to cosign it for some licenses, they'll come inspect your house to make sure you've got a decent gun cabinet and ammo safe and then you'll get your license and you can go get your gun.
It’s probably similar in a lot of European countries. People in my country can have guns, just highly regulated - especially after a mentally troubled individual was somehow still member of a shooting club, meaning he had access and in the end came to an unfortunate shooting with multiple victims. I think this was decades ago, but caused some additional reforms (we already prevented mentally ill people from having guns, but there was a crack/loophole discovered after investigation, and closed).
As Pole, me and my wife use live in UK for few years, and we needed to decide go to states as next country or go back to Poland, we decided to go back, in 6 years perspective this was great decision. Our most issues was crime, division between people, rich poor people unconnected and literally hate, paid healthcare, paid school.
Yes I no longer want to visit America as a tourist - having visited 6 times previously on family holidays. It's not just the gun violence but a culmination of the anger, disrespect, greed and division that are on display everyday.
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I would be afraid of guns, the police, getting sick and needing to go to a hospital.... Doesn't sound like I would be able to relax.
I was going to say the same...
Now imagine you live with that kind of pressure all the time.
I kinda understand that people snap.
I bet everything that if people had less to worry about money - healthcare, university, losing jobs etc. there would be less shootings.
But hey maybe something is gonna change when the tourists stop coming. Then suddenly it's about losing money and not about these annoying citizens.
I'm with you as an Aussie.
I have to totally agree with you, because I have to honest I have those exact some reservations about going to the USA 🇺🇸. It’s a shame but I know I just could not relax or feel totally safe. The biggest worry aside of guns and mass shootings for me is ending up broke if I need medical treatment in the USA 🇺🇸 if I ever needed to receive medical treatment.
Agree with you, too! Guns, cops, bad drivers and cost of health services are my reasons to stay away from the USA.
In the eyes of a lot of European people the US changed from the American Dream to a Dystopian Nightmare. 😢
Exactly that. As a child I couldn't wait to visit. Now I'd only do it if I had no other choice
Maybe was in 50s and 60s
@@dzonikgMost likely not.
Only the americans have (1/3)
guns and can defend themselves against totalitarianism. (2/3)
I’m Australian and the thought of visiting a country where 400 million guns are in circulation, is a non starter for me. Afghanistan sounds as appealing
To be fair you Aussies have gone the complete opposite way , not only giving up your guns but your basic
human rights to "smart "scientists, doctors, corrupt politicians who tell you what's right for you and big pharma.
Australia has now become a police state for normal people ,
And you thought Nazi Germany was bad !
We have a lot of Afghans here in Europe using knives, not as deadly as an assault rifle, but both kill. We also have a lot of wonderful Afghans. But it always seems the murders are by Afghans with knives.
you also forgot part that police is ertreemly corrupt and has right to shoot everything without no reason nor consequences.
No matter what gun laws they set there anymore, the damage is already done as the weapons are out there in civil possessions already. Very sad if you ask from me.
@@CabinFever52 well I don't know where in Europe you live, but that aint problem in Finland. Sure knife violence exist, but it is mostly drunk finns acting stupid. And with knives you rarely have the opportunity to kill multiple people, it is not that easy actually to kill people with knives. Lot easier to save people from knife wounds than from some gunwounds that tear the flesh like mini bombs. Kind of doubt knife violence is that common as you make it seem or that it is specifically related to Afghan immigrants.
When you check the wikipedia page for school shootings in Germany you find 7. The first one in that list was in 1913.
When you check the list of school shootings in the US it asks you if you want it to display 500 per page.
It doesn't for me, but its grouped by decade with quick links to jump to a certain year because it would be so much scrolling
Main reason I would never visit the UsofA is guns held by Americans, 94% of which prove how stupid they are every time they open their mouths on the subject of guns.
In most countries, kids learn to look left, right and then left again before crossing the road. In the US, they learn to run in a zigzag to avoid bullets.
In the UK it's look right, look left and look right again. Who remembers the Green Cross Code Man? (who also played Darth Vader).
@@baylessnowI remember the guy but I didn’t realise it was the Darth Vader guy!!
Thanks 😃
Yep, it was Darth Vader masquerading as the Green Cross road man - remember it well.
And in the US children are taught, from kindergarten, what to do when there's an active shooter in their school - how to lock/barricade doors, hide and stay silent. Never did I have to teach that in my classrooms here in Australia.
@@baylessnow in the UK it hasn't been "look right look left look right again for over 50 years !!" that wasn't/isn't the Green cross code that was called Kerb Drill ... The green cross code is "look all around and listen "
Arm your visitors when they get off the plane. More guns makes more safe. That’s how the logic works right?
"Welcome to America, here is your Assault Rifle, enjoy your visit."
Thats actually what we Europeans said to the immigrants from Europe before 1776. Take a gun, because of the threats of of natives and an army cant fight against the guerrilla tactics. They were told they would have to defend their property themselves. So in a way we europeans are to blame for the gun culture over the pond.
They are still living in the Wild West but instead of horses they move around in cars :)
@@dang1086in 1776 maybe, there is no reason to have that much gun violence 250 years later still
@@Qiunell agreed.
The level of gun violence, the treatment of the public by your police, the treatment of visitors by your immigration staff and TSA are some of the things that will always deter me from ever returning to the USA.
True, the immigration staff. I went alone with a friend to the USA when I we were 14, to be in a host family for 2 weeks. It was scary as hell! We were all in a huge group with men standing above us not just yelling but screaming at us (so of course we couldn't understand). It was not because it was noisy, no, they actually looked very angry. I was pushed and yelled at by a man because I had stepped on a yellow line I didn't see (it was crowded) and I eventually got separated from my friend in the confusion.
Then I was sent to a man (seating wayyyy above to make it intimidated) who would ask me some questions. I couldn't understand much because he was speaking so fast and using difficult words. He saw that and his genius answer was to repeat the same thing but yelling and being angry. I understood I had to face a webcam for a picture and then got my fingerprints like a prisoner!
Then finally we arrived at the luggage (in a complete mess).
The experience made me felt very unwelcomed, like if I was an illegal migrant.
If that's the kind of treatment a white young girl who did nothing suspicious and with all authorizations get.... I'm scared to imagine how others are treated, adults, non white people, people with a "strange" name , actual illegal migrants etc..
i think it will go both ways. police is fromed on regular people so tecnically police brutality is as brutal as average person is.
@@SuperLn1991yes they make you feel like a criminal with the mugshot photo and fingerprints, oh and if you have a name or last name related with a criminal they act like you are and know that 😮. Only for vacations is fine to go there. I recomend to visit México my homeplace we are nice and friendly here 😊🎉
The only negative experience I had with immigration into the US either on business travel or as a tourist was that there have been like two thirds of the counter for US citizens, most of them empty and one third for visitors with a three hour queue. They did not manage to or want to redistribute people to get that queue shorter (witnessed that only once in Miami where they distributed people to whatever counter was available).
But reading the sign "Welcome to the USA" overhead made you think like "yeah sure..."
When it comes to the staff, I have seen TSA staff sending people in a quite loud and demanding tone to stay in a line or queue in another line, but otherwise they would not have been heard.
At the immigration itself, I always found officers beeing between seemingly bored to death to super friendly, no one angry or shouting yet.
Tsa was very nice to me and my family while going through customs.The cops in Jacksonville are a different matter what a bunch of (unts
What always annoys me is when people try to justify gun crime in the US with knife crime in the UK, when actually even knife crime per capita is higher in the US than in the UK
Also knife crime doesn't mean knife violence.
Carrying a knife is a crime here, so 90% of our knife crime is possession.
In America it isn't a crime so almost all their knife crime is either violent or aggressive, this makes the stats that show our knife crime being even close to theirs very very far from representative.
"they really don't understand how someone can walk into a store and buy an AK without a background check". NO, just how someone can buy an AK at all.
Bollocks,of course there's checks
@@davidpurll4570 Doesn't matter to me. No civilian should be allowed to have an AK.
You can buy an AK-47 in the UK (albeit limited to manual fire .22 calibre) along with pretty much any other type of gun. We just don't have the gun culture of the US though so it's rarely seen.
I think it's easier to get an AK in a former Warschaupact country now part of the EU then it is to get one in America.
But yes, the American obsession with guns is ridiculous and idiotic but that's what you get if the majority of people mentally never left the late 1800's and early 1900's. They think they are free and their ancestors left the "old continent" to be free of kings and queens build their own life in freedom only to be screwed ten times harder by super capitalists that treat them worse then said kings and queens did.
@@Monoville Well, with those changes IT IS NOT AK-47 any more. It is a replica without the functionality of an AK.
Only an American would need to clarify what a mass shooting is so he can understand the numbers.
True. If somebody attempts a mass shooting but is bad at aiming and only hits, let’s say one person, Americans might not consider it a mass shooting… 😢
I thought the same thing. I'm not sure about the legal definition in my country (France) but what I can say is that the last mass shooting I remember happened 9 years ago. Having even two of them in the same year would put the whole country in shambles...
We suffered a series of terrorist attacks in 1995 and everyone was terrified, it took a long time for us to feel safe again. And there were much less tourists coming to Paris (No. 1 destination in the world) in the years after these events, so it doesn't surprise me at all that people don't want to go to the US where mass shootings happen daily !
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Yep, 2015, what a year !
@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia as far as I am aware all we have had here in England is the odd isolated incident. And all quite unique, not multiple people resorting to the same thing.
My thoughts exactly 😢
"Canada is like the quiet neighbour living above a meth lab." Robin Williams
Lovely Canada is now a woke mess.
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That's 1000% better than living in a fasime state.
KKK AND NAZI FLAGS.
From Britain there were more guns in Canada I've ever seen in my life!
@@jaks4164lol try raising a family in that madness
I travel a lot for work. In all other countries I am not afraid or worried about getting sick. A colleague in the US for a conference with his wife. They were walking across a road - empty of cars and a policeman pulled a gun on them, for walking across a road! You call it Jaywalking, a crime that does not exist in free countries. In the UK you can talk to a policeman and even joke with them. They are not afraid of the general public. An australian woman called the police in the US, when they cam she ran up to tell them what the problem was - they shot and killed her. In free countries, we do not have to live in fear and learn to run in a zig zag, no lockdown drills in schools. I am never going back to the USA, it is worse than other places I go to.
Of all the things that didn't happen, this one didn't happen the most. Now I know you're all full of shit. No one gets a gun pulled on them for jaywalking, its a minor infraction, and a ticket with a small fine is the most you would get. And cops don't just shoot people for no fucking reason. You watch too much news and don't know the context of it all.
about the jaywalking, that is indeed a crime ingermany for example. if u get caught by the police while crossing a red light, u will get in trouble.which is perfectly fine to me , im german btw .
@hanswurst-ej3qj however, it's highly unlikely that they will shoot you, or otherwise question you for jaywalking whereas in the USA walking appears to be a crime
@@hanswurst-ej3qjIch hab das tatsächlich vergessen, weil es hier in Frankfurt trotzdem regelmäßig von allerlei Menschen gemacht wird und die Polizei meistens besseres zu tun hat.
Deutsche Polizisten sind super freundlich.
Diese ganzen Geschichten mit US Polizisten hören sich wie Albträume an.
@hanswurst-ej3qj Jaywalking is not a crime in Germany. It's a minor offence which can get you a fine. Nothing more than that.
I’m an Aussie who went to the US back in 1996. Even then I was astounded by the armed security guards in shops etc. I actually had a security guard in a museum reach for his gun because he felt I was too close to an exhibit! We also haven’t forgotten our citizens who have been murdered there - one young athlete shot as he was jogging and a woman shot by the police when she called to report an intruder. I’ve recently travelled to Asia and felt totally safe there. Add in the broken health system and the unhealthy food and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back to the US.
Two European countries which compare with The US in terms of gun ownership are Switzerland and Serbia. But no European country has the same level of gun-related crime. It is not the level gun ownership that is the problem, it is the fact that Americans do not have any self-control or discipline with guns
Sweden is close
In Switserland you spend years serving in the military. Then you stay in an active reserve with you service rifle at home. Those Swiss 'gunowners' are in fact what a "well armed militia" should look like, not the bunch of amateurs you see in the US.
I was in the states twice and one time I was with friends in sanfran at night going from pub to pub. Then we heard shots. Everyone went down on the ground, except us. We stood there as statues. A minute later, all went back to normalcy. Not us, we were completely in shock. After a while we were able to walk, nervously. Then… again shots… we lied on the ground immediately. After that, we went to the hotel and drank a beer in safety.
The next morning, we ate a breakfast at a bar or something. Asked the bartender if he heard about the shooting. “Where was that?” he asked. “Just around the corner” we replied. “Oh, that’s odd. Usually it’s one block further” he said and went back cleaning up and whistled a happy song. Unbelievable, it’s simply added to culture there. How can one feel safe there?
Sounds like vacation in an active warzone.
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Yea it was. But to see how normal this awful phenomenon is to americans was the real shock to me.
Makes you paranoid I guess, therefore so many people vote for conspiracy Donnie, I think
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@@marciahill7016
Why are you laughing? It's pretty serious
And those people are afraid of vaccination... It's like a south park episode...
It's not just guns. It's the ability to get sued for everything, go bankrupt because you ended up in a hospital, etc.
On top of that you can add hostility towards tourists from TSA at the airports (I know they're not my friend, but they're first contact with USA upon landing, and that contact and feeling is utter crap). Please, also add that walking in almost all USA (except some big cities) is non existent. Also going out after dark is not recommended.
You can get shot by police if you don't obey orders, I mean, I don't know what customs do you have and why I need to be afraid and scared with cops?
And yes, what do you think rest of the world thinks about people who murder kids in schools (I don't care who does it, gun culture enables it)?
Yes the treatement from immigration is scarey and excedingly unwelcoming - I'm sure it didn't use to be like that back in the 80's when I first travelled to the USA. Must be 9-11 that changed everything.
@@tonycook1624 thing is, other places in the world had attacks happen from shitheads yet their airports don't look down upon every outsider that enters, so that can't be it.
There's a whole plethora of issues that they've got in the US... I also hear they were one of the last to start removing lead from their gasoline, paint... Though I'm pretty sure not all the piping underground hasn't been changed up yet either and that stuff can make you more aggressive and making you less able to do critical thought as you get older.
My family and I visited East Canada and crossed the border at Niagara to visit New England. OMG I think it took about 3 hours, I had to have my photo and fingerprints taken, and had to pass an interview in a room full of extremely grumpy cops with less humour than a corpse. There was only 3 of us, and one other family (2 parents, 2 young kids), the whole time. The poor other family were basically denied entry anyway as the man had an Iranian (I believe) passport - they were trying to go to Disneyland, the kids were in tears, it was so sad to watch.
Interviewer to me: Why do you want to come to the US
Me after 2 hours of waiting: [internal thoughts = don't be sarcastic, don't be sarcastic] *dry voice* Holiday [simultaneous internal thoughts = I don't want to come here any more... wait I said that with my inside voice right]
Also at immigration desk (I think in Florida)
Immigration woman: *stern voice* I see you've been to Egypt and Russia?
My mum: *gushing* Oh yes! We saw the pyramids and..
Me: Mum she's asking if you're a terrorist
Mum: Oh. Oh!
It's not the guns that are the issue, it's the fact that too many Americans use firearms as a first resort in minor disputes. The idea that a drunken idiot can openly carry a lethal weapon around and use it in self defence under the idiotic Stand Your Ground legislation is terrifying.
Wow, you really know nothing about the laws here and are running your mouth like you're some sort of law expert. Fucking get a clue and stop spreading misinformation.
And why do they use the guns? Because they all have one in their pocket. Its not rocket science.
"When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail"?
Well, you have to asume that the other person might also has a gun, so the manly man option (fists) is out.
That's the problem. people getting shot for using the wrong driveway, going for a run, asking for help. Assume theyre armed and shoot first.@@SovermanandVioboy
Something that was mentioned briefly on this was school shootings , this is far more worrying for the civilised world .
Just for context since 2008 Canada has had 2 school shootings ;
France 2
Germany one
Japan 0
Italy 0
UK 0
United States 288
The UK has not had a school shooting since 1996 and never had one before that
Honestly, even as a licensed firearms owner, there's no way I'd visit the US due to gun violence and mass shootings.
Just getting Firearms Insurance here, it covers me Worldwide, except North America, because its so bad there you have to have separate insurance. Tells you everything really.
Perhaps you should be concerned about knife violence, running crowds over with a van, violence....come to America legally, you will be protected and safe, from out of control state, and federal government!
As a tourist it isn't so much the guns or gun violence that deters me. It is the gun mentality and fanaticism. Among other things.
yeah, they treat guns like some sort of religion or cult that everyone MUST AGREE WITH!
You can stay home. OK by me.
As a Brit, based in England, who has worked for an American company for 25 years, and visited America on more occasions than I can count, I can tell you that the threat of guns has become more and more real to those of us visiting the US. Years ago I wouldn't have given it a second thought; we don't have that gun culture here in the UK, and I took that naiveté to the US - i.e. I simply didn't think about it. Last week, I had to take an elearning course on 'how to deal with a mass shooting in an office building'. I thought they had assigned it in error. Nope. They assigned it to everyone globally who might travel to the US. Very scary.
How is that scary
I've spent a lot of time in the US and, like you, took my European naiveté to the US. I didn't think about gun crime either. One summer, when visiting an American friend in Colorado, as I was waiting in the car with her two children (ages 12 & 9) while she popped into 7/11 (convenience store) I was shocked by the anxiety her son (8 year old) was visibly in. When I asked him why he was worried he said that he was worried for his mother's safety because 7/11 shops are known for being targets for gun robbery. I don't know any 8 year old in Europe who worries every time his mum pops to the shops because she runs the risk of possibly becoming a victim of a shooting. Appalling. In this video they're trying to make it out like gun violence are occurrences. I suppose they should define "rare".
How is that not scary? @@TheRockkickass Just the fact that you have to learn something, means it could happen, right? That's why you do fire safety drills, right? Well, in Europe we're never, ever, ever have a drill for gun violence. So if you need to take one, just because you might visit the USA, that does not show confidence by your company that you won't get into a shooting...
@@anta3612 it’s very rare.
@@TheRockkickass It's a heck of a lot more common than in other parts of the world where it wouldn't even cross an adult's mind, let alone a child's.
There is nothing America has that I want. I’m too old for Disney Land, not that I ever wanted to go there. Refuse to eat the plastic cheese and carcinogenic food, too old to run in zig zag to avoid bullets, not into watching haemorrhoid cream adverts ever five seconds, whilst trying to decide, out of million TV channel what not to watch, refuse to converse with ignorant individuals, who wouldn’t know where to locate the UK from on a map if their lives depended on it.
In short, I am quite happy to watch America on the news and marvel at the antic of its citizens, from the safety of my armchair. Or in other words, thanks but no thanks.
Honestly, if you want to go to a Disney park there's always Disney Land Paris. I went there as a kid with my dad once.
Locate the UK on a map? I'm a teacher and, several years ago (more than a decade), I read on a OECD study that more than 50% of american 9th graders didn't know how to locate THE USA on a world map! A country that's half a continent (well, a subcontinent, North America)!
The nature can be pretty nice though.
Actually, America is a nice place to visit except for the people.
Seconded from Ireland, and if I wanted to visit Disney I'd visit EuroDisney. Apparently it is much better than the Florida version and the staff are also much much nicer to visitors.
Saying thats terrible while laughing and smirking about it shows just how much of a joke americans think this. Which proves nothing will ever change because they just dont get how appalled the rest of the world is by this utterly bizarre “right”
Let me put it this way: I'm half Italian half Spanish. I've travelled a lot.
My mum has friends and a cousin in the USA. I've been asked plenty of times "why don't you go live there for a few months, as an experience".
I'm diabetic. That's why.
Yup, i would never visit America because of guns.
Not worth the risk.
Me too
Like seriously, i dont wanna get shot just for looking at someone
also cops ... i might not act the right way ..since im used to trained police in europe and might get shot for resisting when i ask a question.. the whole vibe in society is also so not nice i almost lived there im glad i choose not to stay ..pff being 21 in the usa with a dutch mindset and a brown skin ..i wouldnt be alive now
I agree with y'all
+1
Visiting a country where you can get shot just for ringing the doorbell or driving up the wrong driveway,is a country i would never ever do. And this actually happened in your country
Someone from my home city, Aberdeen, was shot and killed in the USA when he knocked on someone’s door late in the evening to ask for directions.
No feeling shown for those lost..just annoyed and dispassionately debating how many lives lost constitutes a "mass shooting" ? That's a messed up society right there.
It's because they've become desensitised to it. In order to have become desensitised it means that it's not so "rare" as some have commented here.
@@anta3612 US govt statistics say that in the first 45 days of this year there were roughly 4.3 mass shootings EVERY DAY. That is beyond ''not rare''
yup brainwashed
Im from the UK and we see a "US school shooting" or "US Mass shooting" headline just about once every one or two weeks. On average, UK police only discharge their firearms less than 10 times a year, and only a small percentage of our cops are armed. Compared to the hundreds of times per year in the US, it does make the UK seem a lot safer.
I'm Finnish. In Finland after you've completed your military service, you can buy a gun. Many people hunt and own guns here, but I still would never visit the United States.
I'm afraid of the nature that US citizens show when talking about guns. Many that I've seen talk and argue like it's a birthright to hold and shoot a gun. That's scary. That's why I won't visit USA. I can't trust the people to not shoot me. My problem isn't with the guns, but the way that anyone can access them.
I can't trust that nobody in the US would shoot me if they had the chance. That's why I won't visit. I'm in high school.
when that guy said "America is by large one of the safest countries in the world." I actually laughed out loud
Same
Felt almost like he was trying to argue on both sides, "America is by large one of the safest countries in the world." juxtaposed with "A lot of states are loosening their gun laws."..
(Did you notice that he was also emphasizing on "*They* don't understand.." As if to shift blame?)
Not evn just violence. Even before the recent wave of attacks on women’s rights, the US already had third-world levels of obstetric & neonatal mortality, cancer mortality, and mortality as a proportion of the people with chronic issues like diabetes.
I would never visit a country when children are slaughtered in schools and nothing is done about it.
This! It's the attitude that deters me, even more so than the actual numbers.
Yeah, here in Finland we've ever had like 2 school shootings, but few days ago some 23yo woman was planning a school shooting in my home town, but police were able to intercept it in time. Its been on front pages of every single newspaper for several days. That is taken very seriously here.
@@jyripeltola6677 Here in the UK we have had 1 mass school shooting (Dunblane 1996) after that our guns laws were tightened haven't had one since.
How can you say nothing is done about it? Do thoughts and prayers mean nothing?
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Yeah, the irony….
Tbh as a European, the gun violence isn't the only thing that makes me have second thoughts about ever visiting. It's the seemingly ever increasing polarised politics with people on one side sounding like they just escaped an insane asylum and the aggressive nature of your police that scare me more.
Guns. Ultra-processed & GM foods. Tipping (ffs, pay them a decent wage!) Lack of public transport. Cost of Travel Insurance. Christofascists.
It's a shame. I was in the States in the 70s. What a beautiful and varied country! It's sad that I can no longer feel safe in visiting.
yeah, and the Christian Nationalists (NAR) with their Seven Mountains goal are scary as f***
I have a cousin who married an American woman, and moved over there.
He lasted a little over a decade before he had to come home.
Helicopters flying about at night, gun shots going off, working seven days a week, appalling health care, terrible food and next to no public transport.
Were just a few of the things he mentioned. There were plenty more.
Oh yes, also came home as there's no state pension in America either.
Land of the free😂😂
Not just the guns and gun violence that makes me hesitate, also the healthcare, standard of driving, lack of mandatory nation l vehicle inpections, COPS.... to name a few!
Completely true dude. Guns, Political obsessed nut bags, religious extremism, health system I would not want to get mixed up in, extreme levels of violence everywhere. HAs completely stopped me ever thinking of stepping foot in USA. Give me Europe, South America and Canada any other day
As a 30 year old Portuguese, the only guns I’ve seen in my life are from the police, and safe in their pocket
As a 66 year old English woman I've never seen one and I'm quite happy with that
As a 47 year old Dutch woman I totally concur.
52 year old German. Once I saw a cop putting an MP back into the car in front of a bank that had just been robbed.
40 year old French. I've never seen a civilian with a gun, except for hunters who have rifles. Just... don't go in the wood during hunting season and you're good.
Italian, 56 years old. I work at an airport so I saw firearms on security police staff, safely in their holsters. And in movies 😁
I visited the US many years ago. And it was a very memorable trip. I understood that I'm too much of an European to ever come back. I never understood the way of living or this very specific outlook on life most Americans have. And although it was in general a nice holiday, it opened my eyes to obvious problems that were and are conceived total normality there. I just hope for the best, because coming November 2024 I see a very big problem ahead that will unfortunately affect the whole world.
In Australia the only drills we have in schools are fire drills. There are no active shooter drills. I cannot imagine raising a child in a country where a child has to know what to do if someone enters a schools and wants to kill them. What kind of childhood is that? Yes children need to know about stranger danger when they are outside school but not in school!
In NZ we had fire drills and earthquake drills! Couldn’t imagine doing one as a child because of some insane person having access to a gun who wants to murder children.
It must be even more frustrating for you Ozzy's, you had a period where mass shootings started happening and did what was needed to protect your people and put an end to such atrocities.
Now you have Americans claiming that the exact things Australia did will not stop shootings and will only benefit criminals tryna kill you 🤦♂️🤷🏼♂️
When you’re worrying about how you define a mass shooting you know you have a problem. The possibility of being shot and killed never crosses my mind in the U.K. if I’m in a supermarket or restaurant but it definitely does when I’m in America. 😢
Right?! Anyone shooting anyone randomly in public is absolutely horrifying. For the person attacked and anyone exposed to the incident directly or indirectly. Even if it is "just" one death. Someone was shot. I don't know why we need to discuss the definition at all.
It doesn’t cross my mind in America either, and I work in a public place everyday
@@Yeeyeeenation Probably because you're used to it.
@@YeeyeeenationYes, you are used to it and therefore not realising how lost your are.
Australian here and have been to the US twice, firstly in 2014 and again in 2017. We decided to go despite our reservations and were hyper-vigilant the entire time we were there because we knew that anyone could have concealed weapons on their person. It wasn't helped by a total stranger on our first day in Alaska, hearing our accents as we talked to each other while we waited at a pick up point for a shuttle bus, asking us where we were from and then immediately asked what we thought of President Trump. When we replied that we were visiting on holidays and didn't discuss politics, he became aggressive in his attitude, insisting we answer his question and becoming increasingly agitated, eventually forcing us to walk away quickly and enter a nearby store as we felt so unsafe. It set the tone for the entire trip to Alaska. It was certainly worse than it was in 2014. You can't simply relax . We'll never go back.
Isn't Alaska a red state? No surprises there...
@@intensemint7800 We knew that before we went, but we didn't expect the level of aggression towards foreign tourists who were being polite while just waiting for a bus. Our visit to the US in 2014, including "red" states and concealed carry, etc., had nowhere near that level of rudeness and outright intimidation as we experienced in 2017.
@@heatherharvey3129 I suspected it when that orange dude came in office, that it would have a lot to do with how openly his supporters started to display animosity towards foreigners. I'm certainly not in a hurry to go to US either, though NYC would be an awesome place to visit.
I've never seen a gun outside of service personnel or a Specialist Police Officer in public . In the UK. guns just aren't a part of our culture . The most shocking thing about this is they appear to see it as a media problem .
Same in Austria or Germany. Police carries guns but I never saw one in use. Only once when there was a big(?) money transport and some officers with machine guns at the entrance to the bank.
I've seen an automatic assault rifle held by a military guard during an open day at our military airbase (just at the entrances & exits, nowhere else on the base).
It however was loosely in his hands diagonally pointing to the ground, which was not at all threatening to anyone not looking to cause problems.
I've seen armed police lots of times in the UK. There are guns on the streets here just not exactly a common occurance but the police are equipped to take out such threats thankfully.
@@toddlerj102 Every police force in the UK has a firearms section, or access to one. Most of the larger city based police forces have a rapid reaction armed response vehicle on patrol 24/7.
First time I've seen a gun was at the US embassy when I was going for a visa appointment.
I'm from the UK so guns of any sort are not something I would ever see on the street unless it's by the police guarding anything connected with the Royal family. The fact that in America, people can walk around with guns openly or even a concealed weapon is terrifying. It just takes someone with a short fuse to get upset for any reason and right there is a major incident kicking off! There's gang shootings in broad daylight, drive by shootings, store robberies. Any one of these could take out innocent people. That's without all the trigger happy police! So no - I won't be visiting the USA anytime in this lifetime.
I’m from Sweden & went to school in Louisiana in 2012-2013 & now that I’m aware of the US gun violence I won’t go back until you have federal gun control
Fix your failing nation and do something about your pathetic, vile monarchy.
Honestly? I considered visiting the US last year, going to California. One of the factors that put me off was the guns. That and actually getting around the city without a car.
As a Dutch person, I can tell you the thought of visiting the US scares the shit out of me exactly due to this. The easy access to firearms, coupled with how rude and violent the police is, is the largest reason I'll never visit the US. I'd love to see the large amount of varied natural landscapes there, and visit certain musical venues, but not at the potential cost of being shot.
For same reason will never visit American continent,North or South .Maybe only Argentina
"When I go to a big event I am on alert"
The worst thing I think can happen to me when I go to a big event is been pickpocketed or maybe a drunk-fight.
Same here. I'm not sure if I would go to any big event if I can't relax and enjoy it.
I visit the US to meet my friends over there, but I don’t feel safe there at all.
In 2022 Germany had about 240 murders with a population of 83 million people, Chicago had 725 murders with a population 2.6 million
There are more mass shootings across the states then murders in Germany. And there is nothing done about gun violence
And then there is the distracted and bad driving.
I don’t wanna shit on your country Ryan, but this looks bad. A lot of the cities people would like to go to have a higher number of murders then my country as a whole and that doesn’t look good.
Eh. At this point, the guns are only the cherry on top of the pile of reasons why I don't want to visit the US... right next to the omnipresent nationalism, the attitude towards religion, racism & homophobia, the impossibility to go anywhere without a car (mixed with the fact that people will try to kill you if you have a bicycle), **imperial unit system**, karens (I've had an actual karen from the US as an english teacher... it's *bad*), the fact that they don't have a proper demonym ("American" is their continent's demonym), the fact that they are supporting evil corporations...
And, most importantly of all, the fact that many (if not the majority) of people in the US are ok with this situation, apparently.
I still remember the instructions when picking up the rental car in Miami. The nice lady at the counter just asked: Do you know how not to get shot?
(1) Don't road rage (quote: cutting off can be life-threatening).
(2) Keep your hands out of the window during police checks.
(3) Only park in designated parking spaces.
(4) Never enter or drive on private property (not even to turn around).
As a German, I first looked for the hidden camera, but then realized that she was serious. On the way to the car, I wondered how much a Kevlar vest would cost...
That’s crazy. Cowboy culture slowly bleeding out any sanity left in American society.
"Its kinda annoying they don't have a standard for what a mass shooting is, so you get all those different numbers"
That sentence is so massively revealing...you have to define...you have to count...you end up with many different numbers...yup...says it all...
Yes.. I found that statement very disturbing
Americans like numbers it's all about impressive numbers, reason they still use the imperial system. 10 feet sounds alot more impressive then 3 meters or 7000th of 3 seventh of an inch instead of 0.3mm or whatever that obsolete imperial measurement is. They cant count or make their minds up only numbers that sound impressive wether it's lives or feet.
The U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.
Between the guns and the corrupt police- no thanks. Saludos de España (Spain)
I’m Australian and you couldn’t pay me enough to visit the US.
Canadian woman here. I made friends with people in texas over the internet during the pandemic, talking about visiting in 2023. Shootings, changes in legislature especially concerning woman’s rights, the risks of bankruptcy for medical bills, all those things had me so anxious i told my friends i couldn’t see myself make the trip.
Just thinking about the average person’s temper, smarts and wisdom, and knowing half the population is worse? Then adding the fact that all of those people could be carrying a gun? I would not be able to go out in public
I'm Aussie, and was supposed to go to Florida / Disneyland this coming June, with 3 girlfriend's. We unanimously decided it wasn't worth the worry (gun violence and governor Ron Desantis). So we're taking our tourist dollars to Disneyworld Japan in September instead. Where all 4 of us feel safer, and won't be looking over our shoulders - we're going on holiday to relax and enjoy, not to worry about if the next person we walk past is packing or not.
Agreed. I would never give Desantis my money. Rather go to Paris Disneyland.
Go to Disneyland in California where there are fewer guns and open carry is illegal. The place in Florida is Disney World.
@@dougbowers4415 We've already changed all our flights and hotel bookings, but thanks for your input.
You wont regret going to Japan! It's amazing over there😊 Traveled solo 2 times for a whole month, never felt safer in my life!
@@LovingLipgloss I've actually been twice before, but only on overnight layovers, on my way back home. My 3 friends haven't been before. So all 4 of us are looking forward to this trip big time.
One of the silly things I'm really looking forward to, is seeing Mt Fuji coming into sight from the plane again. I'll never forget the first time I saw that epic view, it's absolutely amazingly beautiful 😊
The guy says that people from the UK cannot fathom how a sophisticated wealthy country like the U.S. continues to maintain the status quo when it comes to your gun laws. As a person from the UK, I can tell you that I don't find the U.S. sophisticated in the least. In fact I visited the U.S. twice in 2022 (once to visit my aunt after my mother died, and once for my aunt's funeral a few months later) and I'm not put off visiting at all. The food, the culture, the politics, the religiousness, the urban landscape, and the wild areas and many of the people are entirely unsophisticated and that's a major draw for me. I have nothing against guns either, but your laws and the way your police enforce them is completely bonkers! Any country that could elect Tronald Dump as President has got to look at itself and think "How the heck can this happen!?”
"sophisticated wealthy country like the U.S" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA! XD
A third world country hiding behind a GDP figure
The US is a 3rd world country with a Gucci belt.
I love how he basicly goes «Yeah, we got tons of shootings, buuuut crimes aren’t that much higher».
Yeah, sorry, but i would rather have something stolen, etc than to be shot.
The reasoning is so bad.
Yeah, i would not want to visit because of guns, hospitals, and more..
Also the food is poor quality and eating out is unaffordable because of taxes and tips added to the charge
@@princessperdita True, can’t stand all the hidden costs. Don’t really like how they’ve made it so you «have» to drive a car most places.
Just love to be able to walk around and don’t mind public transport (don’t get me wrong, i’ve driven cars in 8 countries, but that was as a choice).
@@KurtFrederiksen depends on how you travel. I’ve never had a goal to drive, I prefer biking and hiking, or just sightseeing or all inclusive.
And I don’t know many who’s driving a lot in other countries.
My brother from a young age wanted to live in a different country. Also for many years, he had a dream to go to the US and go on a road trip by car. So he lived in a few different European countries, because he could make more money there and also it was where he wanted to live. He was young, saved a good chunk of money and decided fuck it, YOLO and with a friend decided to have a vacation in the US. They rented a car and go for a one month on a road trip from Boston to Washington DC and back to New York. He did it 5 years ago. When he came back, he was excited about the experience he had, but also said he would not going to go back for more and he would never live there. So many places where he felt unsafe. He experienced more of them in a month than he had in 26 years living in 3 different European countries. Private property everywhere. There were a lot of social, nice people, but also people who acted deranged and overly aggressive. 3 years ago he came back for good back to live in our country. It is a small country by the Baltic Sea. When I asked why, he said that he realized, that despite what he could make more money elsewhere, or have more diverse experiences, but he never felt freer, safer, or more relaxed than living here. He said he never realized how beautiful our nature is and how much access we have to it. And how compacted and easily available and accessible every corner of our country is. You can just stop a car, go to a random forest pick a berry or mushrooms or wildflowers from a random field, and the owner if you come across one, 95 percent of the time will ask you who is the lucky lady instead of giving you a warning and even point you to the direction where "the pretty ones grows". Before living everywhere, he didn't realize simple things like that were a privilege and not a given.
The US for me is a sight to see and experience because of its nature's beauty and shier scale of it. But society-wise it is dystopia. And with social media I hear about shootings in US very often, not even talking about homelessness, police brutality and corruption, medical and insurance system that is a crime on its own, going back on women's rights. Electing a person like Trump with his rhetoric as head of the state. US seems like a place you don't want to be in for a longer time. If I wanted to experience nature and the scale of it, I think I would just go to Canada instead.
"Are Europeans hesitant to visit the USA because of guns??"
Yes, absolutely. A fair number of them.
The guns, the food, the medical situation, the fact no cars are tested for road safety, the fact you need a car, the lack of public transport, the police, the locals the cost of food, the lack of pubs, the lack of real beer,
The list is endless.
The locals?
yes but don't forget that as Americans they have "FREEDOM" .... lol
@@Yeeyeeenation aye, their all Americans
@@deankeith830 Ahh you got me... I forgot that. I am so jealous
American citizen here. I've lived in Europe for over 3 years. Yes indeed people here are reluctant to visit the US, and completely bewildered by the gun violence there, and by the way it's tolerated. It would never happen here. Also there's a difference between over-all level of crime and specific levels of gun violence. Typical crime levels aren't out of line in the US but gun violence and gun 'culture" (if you can call it that) is extraordinarily common compared to any other country I'm aware of.
It's logical. When you can buy guns at the same place where you can buy food there is something wrong with you. xD
In some states you can buy marijuana next door too.
@@niarkozzynothing wrong with that 😛
@@CodeNascher_ But there is something wrong with that.
@@niarkozzy Not sure if that's good or not either xD
@@Thurgosh_OG True Maijuana never killed anyone.
Mass Shootings in Australia are defined as 2 or more victims and we stopped ours... The USA could do things to limit mass shootings but nothing is done.... So the only conclusion I can draw is the majority of people in the USA want mass shootings.... Otherwise something would have been done by now....
I was on vacation a few years ago in New York (I'm from Uruguay). I was hanging out with some friends at a bar, and I went out for a smoke. I had a beer in my hand. Not even five minutes passed before I had four cops around me (I'm not taller than 1.60 meters). They started yelling at me, and honestly, I forgot my English. Without understanding what was going on, I ended up telling them I didn't speak English because they wouldn't stop shouting. I took two steps back, and they put their hands on their guns. One of my friends lived in New York, and when she saw what was happening, she yelled at me, "Don't run." All because I had a beer in my hand. Nothing else happened, but years later, I had the opportunity to go work in Texas, and honestly, I decided not to go. If this happened in New York, which is a "liberal" state, I don't want to imagine what it's like in Texas. In my country, we're not used to that.
Good. Don’t go to other countries and flout the laws. You’re entitled.
@@fatherson5907 Most people would not realise walking into the street holding a beer was breaking the law. I can't think of any country other than the US and some middle eastern countries where that would be the case.
@@charlesunderwood6334 that’s because you live in a cesspool of drunk failures
And why would I constantly want to pay 15-20% tip on every bar/restaurant tab. I don’t want to get shot and I don’t want to get ripped off. Pay your service industry properly and ban automatic weapons as a bare minimum
Hear hear - with you on those points
+1
Nothing to disagree on ❤
And a decent health service as a minimum requirement.
@@pollyparrot8759 workers’ benefits, sick pay, holiday pay, maternity leave, where do you stop Polly. I live in the UK and it sure isn’t perfect but I count my blessings that I was born and live here and not in the US. And the vitriol in the politics, MAGA? GOP head cases like MTG, Gaetz and Boebert? I am not anti GOP, but I am anti lunacy. You need decent presidential candidates on both sides and the US deserves better than a geriatric Dem and self serving narcissist Rep. Listening to Trump makes me feel ill. Rant over!
YES ...I have been to America many times, driving from state to state and seeing more of America than most Americans.
NOTHING beats the feeling of coming home, takeing an evening walk in the dark alone, as a woman....and feeling NO fear whatsoever 🥰
Bot not for long after milions off scientists from africa and middle east comed to Europe
I fear that someone would shot me but not kill me and I had to go to american hospital by ambulance😂
Thousands for something you didn't cause by yourself. That would be ridiculous.
I said something similar before and the response I got was that I could sue the shooter for medical costs if they survived, or that there were charities I cold contact for help lmao@@UltraCasualPenguin
The fact that this topic is even "contentious" is crazy
"It's safe here." Isn't that what also the mayor of Amity said despite the great white fish lurking in the water?
The fact that U.S. citizens have become so numbed to the amount of gun violence in their country that they even USE phrases like, "Yeah, but nobody has defined what constitutes a 'mass shooting' ...", or "but nobody has defined exactly what constitutes an 'assault rifle' ..." is enough to tell me that I don't want to be among people who would raise those arguments! The issue of the number of illegal immigrants flooding over the southern border of the USA really makes me grateful for being born in Canada. If people are willing to risk their lives to get into the place with the most civilian gun violence in the world, how bad must it be where they are coming from?!? I'll never enter the USA again.
And look what a mess Canada has turned into pure totalitarianism.
I think the exact same thing..how bad is their homeland that they risk being shot or worse still SICK!!
Mexico is another level on violence ,dystopian level
@susanrogers2761 Me too. When Americans boast about "people wanting to come to the US", I scoff. The only people who want to come to the USA are those who are so desperate that _anything_ would be an improvement, and those who are already so stinking rich (yes, I'm looking at you, Rolling Stones) that they go for the tax breaks.
Where an incident would be on the news forever and every one would be shocked in outher countries, is just another day in America.
Most shootings don't even make the local news over there. Not that they're that bothered
Yes - and I am an American who has been living in Europe for decades. I do hesitate to visit what used to be home because there are so many damned guns everywhere!
Then stay where you are.
@@mikethomas4598 That's exactly what I intend to do.
@k.schmidt2740 that's really good! We don't need anymore woke POSs here.
A English lady on vacation in America got into trouble and made the mistake of running towards a police car for help, the police shot and killed her. Look it up.
She was an Australian living in the USA and engaged to marry an American
@@KurtFrederiksen good point. I hadn't read about the Englishwoman
Also a New Zealander who was stranded with his car in the USA and called 911 for help. Didn't live to go back home, cause the police came to help him...
Yes, baby. We afraid of guns in US. I'm so sorry for that. 😢
I am european and to be frank one of the main reasons why my family and I are not interested in going to the US is definately because of the US gun laws.
Or lack of 😉
This is very real. I am from Europe. When I was younger, the US was on the list of places I wanted to travel, but now it’s on the definite-no list. The fact that you can become a police officer with only a few months education, while in my country it’s a 3-year bachelor’s degree tells me that there’s too little training over there to handle all those guns “on the loose”. And yes, what the lady says is true. We get the news here in Europe about the violence and the shootings. And when you add all the additives in food that we don’t do in Europe… I’m sorry, but there’s not many good advertisements for you right now.
A few months is optimistic some states (or counties?) have a mandatory training scheduled in days! Around three months is the national average in the USA.
My USA vacation in a short list:
-Begged by the waiter that we should please tip properly because he hasn't earned much today.
-Trying to cheat us when buying a motorcycle.
-VERY close to being hit by a car in a traffic accident.
-Robbery on the street and tries to snatch the motorcycle from me.
-Road closed due to hurricane and no hotel found because "foreign motorcyclists" were not welcome.
-Arrived at the booked hotel...which unfortunately was partially destroyed by the hurricane.
-Contact with the police 4 times...harmless, but we also behaved very decently on vacation!
But I also met a lot of warm, friendly and helpful people....and water was free 🎉 (but it tasted like an indoor pool)
This all came to mind spontaneously, there were definitely more.
Oh yes, ...minor thefts like shoes in front of the hotel room.
That was in the early 90s... maybe things are more civilized in Florida now?😂😂😂
As a european who visited and actually got married in Las Vegas I would not go back because:
-guns
-food
-infrastructure
-hopitals
-airlines
-cops
-People. although people are good and bad everywhere you go but fake kindness mixed with ignorance is what I personally didn't like.
I’m from Finland and I’m hesitant to travel to America because your police scare me. It’s easy to avoid places where there’s criminals but very hard to avoid places where there are trigger happy cops.
Brits have a joke for the united states
whats the difference between the united states and yoghurt? Leave yoghurt 200 years alone and it developes a culture
Honestly three things.
I dont wanna be shot by rando
I dont wanna be poisoned by your trash food with all those chemicals
And if ive got poisoned i dont wanna be in dept for rest of my life with your trashy health care system.
I would never visit usa because of guns with other things. From sweden
and your leaders have just signed you up to NATO !! I would say that's a lot more dangerous for your population than a quick visit to the USA ! Once the Globalists have started another war somewhere again , some of your sons and daughters will help to make up the numbers. Watch what you wish for ???
Det är ju absolut ingen som skjuter i svenska storstäder... Varför ska alltid töntar till "landsmän" skriva inlägg som detta.
@@francisdec1615Sveriges brottslighet är ingenting i jämförelse med USA
@@futurew0782 Det skjuts faktiskt mer per capita i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö än i stater som Vermont och Maine, där det är jättelätt för de flesta att skaffa ett vapen. I Vermont och Maine får hederliga människor bära vapen och skjuta tillbaka. Det är typiskt dumsvensken att försvara sin egen ofrihet.
As a non-American, I'd be less worried about guns and more worried about any injury. Or even food.
If Americans can get sick by the food after being abroad for a hot minute, what's going to happen to me?
I have been saying this: As a kid going to America was like a dream. Wow America! Now you couldn't pay me to visit America. No way. The way you think about Venezuela, that's how many non-Americans think about the US now. I don't want to feel stressed or risk my life on vacation. "I do think America is one of the safest places in the world." Omg that was hilarious! LOL And what? They're losening gun laws?? Are they mad?!
When ever there is a mass shooting, it is in the news. So, yes, we read about it all the time.
I worked all over the world in 44 countries and in the US about 50 times and worked in 15 states in the exhibit industry. I never came as a tourist and I’ve just retired and will never come back to the US.
To answer the question in the title: Yes.
Not everyone but I myself would and I know people who think similar.
You get weapons everywhere, have to assume that everyone is armed and then you see quite a few videos how the police acts.
It might convey a wrong picture of the US, I wouldn't know I never was there, but it IS conveying one, a bad looking one.
I felt anything but at ease when I visited family in the USA more than twenty years ago - way before all of those videos online, I just had news on paper and tv. And I felt especially ill at ease, when we encounter cops.
We have had an offer to move for work to Chicago from Poland and gun culture is one of the reasons why we said no.
Talked to one of my neighbours about this exact thing a few days ago. He was a police officer with the German police for 42 years.
We agreed that we both don't want to visit the US because of the crime, the politics and the US "justice" system.
Neither he or I trust the US police or courts to do a good job and therefore the safety just isn't there. If in the US I'd worry as much about being killed as I'd worry about being wrongfully accused of a crime or being harassed by police.
I have family in the US and have an open invitations to visit New Jersey, New Orleans and Houston. Never have though and never will. It isn't just the gun crime, although that is a factor, but just general violence is far more common (knife crime in US cities runs at five to ten times the level it does in the worst of the UKs cities but rarely gets reported because the gun crime is so much worse, check the stats), the police do not seem trustworthy, educated or fit for purpose. And I don't want to fall ill in a country where people call for a cab rather than an ambulance.
The FBI has not set a minimum number of casualties to qualify an event as a mass shooting, but U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.
I think it’s „3, not including the shooter“.
I looked up the numbers for Germany (with that and taking all killings, not just shootings) and I think it came down to about 2 per year - mostly parents killing their children and partner.
Canada too. We now live literally within sight of America, just across the St Lawrence river, but there's no way we will ever plan to visit there again.
The last time we did, my son came to visit from the UK and we took him from Montreal to see Niagara. We opted to cross the border so as to drive back to Montreal through USA to give him his first experience of it. But the antagonistic treatment we received at the border post, trying to get approval for him to visit, and the time it took to do it, were just insane. We ended up sitting at the border post for longer than it took us to drive home.
In Britain we often claim a "special relationship" with America. But that day my son was treated as a criminal until we could prove he wasn't. I'm never doing that again.
I've only been to New York city and that was 2 years after 9/11. Would I visit America again? Yes but with reservations. Would I go walking down a dark street? NO. Would I go walking down a dark street in the UK? NO. American has terrible gun crime but here in the UK we have knife crime, so many teenagers murdered, something unheard of years ago. Also shop lifting in the UK is an all time high with thieves going into shops armed with knives and machetes. My experience of NY was the shop assistants and waiters were very polite. Whilst queuing for the usual attractions we found ourselves chatting to Americans. We were shocked that they didn't have much knowledge of other countries and their place on the world map. Geography that is such basic knowledge to Europeans. On arrival at JFK airport we found the security staff very frightening and rude. We felt insulted being indigenous Britons whose Queen had the American national anthem played by the Guards band on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace. We thought we were USA's best friend and ally but it didn't feel like it at the airport. The final negative was the lack of getting a good meal unless we paid a lot of money, everything was fast food diners. We were so glad to get home and back to nutritional balanced meals. There are lots of places I would love to see in the USA so tea I would go back but like all countries you have to use common sense and take advise from the locals.
Well, he was treated „special“, no idea why you are complaining.
@@tomsommer8372 You're obviously American. And hence treat any foreigner as an enemy, being impressed that your Border Guards let him in at all. That wasn't the action of a "friendly" country. And the long delay was entirely due to the border guards being overstretched and understaffed. Your country was unimpressive from every standpoint - that's why we're never going back.
that special relationship is based on Uncle Sam saying "you are required to back us up" on any foreign relations junket and the poodles say "aye aye sir".
@@Kat-po3mn That's the mistaken "poodle" view. It should be much more that your best friend should be the one who feels free to point out your errors, your mistakes, your character flaws, to help you improve. That's the sort of special relationship that is healthy, and the one that helps cement a closer friendship. We had that once. No more, it seems.
I'm European. I lived in NYC in the 90s in a fairly sketchy part of B'klyn, drove a car from coast to coast back then and for the last few years have been coming to the US about 4-6 times a year.
Things have changed and there are parts of the US I will not visit and it's not the places you might think - the big metro areas. I will not set foot in Florida or any of the southern or mid-western states where gun laws have been relaxed and division and hatred has bloomed simultaneously. Where you can "stand your ground" and "try that in a small town" results in daily additions to the statistics I don't want to be a part of. It's not about the mass shootings. It's the everyday, run of the mill, nothing to see here shootings I worry about.
The difference between most developed countries and the USA is an order of magnitude larger, and sometimes two orders of magnitude larger than the difference between the USA and Bahamas or Barbados.
Didn't Trump say that the USA is a third world country all over the world?
She talks about mass shootings, a single shooting puts me off!
Definitions of what a mass shooting is aside, would you rather visit somewhere where the chance of being shot is 6,150-1, like in America, or 2,347,863-1 like in the UK?
As a European I used to love visiting to the US up until the mid 2010s. HOWEVER, the growing gun violence in the US, the way police behaves, the way people are treated when entering the US, … No intention of going back in the near future. It's not just guns, but the shift in culture and the rift in society that is the biggest turn off for me.
Exactly, I'd be worried of my husband getting shot at for being black..I'd be scared of walking in the wrong neighborhood, or even the wrong street not to face any gang, dangerous or petty. I'd be freaked if I stopped to think that from any house, any window, any yard someone may have a gun and use it. Not that there isn't crime in europe but it is not a free market of guns and shots, so it is better.
Mate. I'm Australian. We're pretty easy going, but I wouldn't visit the US if I could, purely because the chances are pretty high that I could die in a random shooting.
The worst part about this is that it's not even that hard to get a gun in the UK. You get a free letter from your doctor saying you're not crazy, you go reserve a gun, go to the police and pay the license fee, you need someone to cosign it for some licenses, they'll come inspect your house to make sure you've got a decent gun cabinet and ammo safe and then you'll get your license and you can go get your gun.
It’s probably similar in a lot of European countries. People in my country can have guns, just highly regulated - especially after a mentally troubled individual was somehow still member of a shooting club, meaning he had access and in the end came to an unfortunate shooting with multiple victims. I think this was decades ago, but caused some additional reforms (we already prevented mentally ill people from having guns, but there was a crack/loophole discovered after investigation, and closed).
As Pole, me and my wife use live in UK for few years, and we needed to decide go to states as next country or go back to Poland, we decided to go back, in 6 years perspective this was great decision.
Our most issues was crime, division between people, rich poor people unconnected and literally hate, paid healthcare, paid school.
Yes I no longer want to visit America as a tourist - having visited 6 times previously on family holidays. It's not just the gun violence but a culmination of the anger, disrespect, greed and division that are on display everyday.