So go live there. Nothing in the OP compares which place is safest to live yet you feel the need to derail the topic.
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One day my youngest son came home from high school and told me that he knew a couple other kids who were bringing guns to school...and he said it as if it were no big deal. About a month later he was attending high school in the Philippines...and he's since told me that that was the best thing we ever did for him.
Why?
Among other things, one day he took a penknife - a freaking
penknife - to school and showed it to the other kids...and suddenly a bunch of the other students clustered around him, castigating him for bringing a weapon to school, asking him (in not-so-very-nice terms) why the heck he would bring a weapon to school. Mind you, it wasn't the teachers but the
students who were mad at him for bringing a penknife to school. He didn't make that mistake again.
In other words, unlike most Americans, we did have the wherewithal and opportunity to send our kids to school overseas in order to keep them safe...and we did so. Yes, that safer place was and is a third-world nation, but they were certainly safer there than going to school here...and we don't regret it for a moment. Why? Because the third-greatest cause of death to teenagers in America is homicide.
The only reasons we're staying here right now are because this is where our livelihood and most of our family is. I've told my family several times that if we can afford it, I hope we can all move to Australia where people are a bit more tolerant and sensible than the neo-Confederates that we see infesting much of our political Right. And before you start giving me the pseudo-patriotic "love it or leave it" line, I did my twenty years in the military - I do know a bit about patriotism...and one of the things I've learned about patriotism is that when it comes to those so-called patriots who plaster American flags all over their trucks and think that it's Really Patriotic to have as many firearms as possible, a LOT of them have never served and never learned what real patriotism is. So many of them no longer believe in constitutional rights of freedom of religion or equal protection under the law. Instead, their "patriotism" is all about who they should hate, who they should reject, who they should fear.
A great man once said "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." Y'all have forgotten the deeper meaning of FDR's quote, but instead have embraced an ethos of fearing everyone who doesn't look/think/speak/worship like y'all do. Xenophobic nationalism is NOT patriotic - not in the America I served. Instead, y'all seem to look wistfully back to the days of Jim Crow, as if America was somehow greater then than before Trump took over.