:wide eyed emoji: As bad as it looks and, obviously, it looks a lot worse to someone who's never been here but out of everywhere we've been, I we still feel safest here.
Oh yeah, aside from the bad craziness that was the long hot summer of 2020 I've never felt particularly unsafe here. It's all what you're used to I suspect, statistically we're a lot more likely to die by the gun compared to other industrialized/wealthy nations. Even that is less ominous than it sounds, almost twice as many of our gun deaths are suicides rather than homicides, which is a peculiarity that's pretty well unique to the US.
Lol, a few years back I was in Oregon looking for a place to camp, ended up driving up a forest service road until I stumbled upon a gun range. Figured that was a good sign I was in the right place so I set up camp nearby.
:wide eyed emoji: As bad as it looks and, obviously, it looks a lot worse to someone who's never been here but out of everywhere we've been,
Iwe still feel safest here.Oh yeah, aside from the bad craziness that was the long hot summer of 2020 I've never felt particularly unsafe here. It's all what you're used to I suspect, statistically we're a lot more likely to die by the gun compared to other industrialized/wealthy nations. Even that is less ominous than it sounds, almost twice as many of our gun deaths are suicides rather than homicides, which is a peculiarity that's pretty well unique to the US.
Lol, a few years back I was in Oregon looking for a place to camp, ended up driving up a forest service road until I stumbled upon a gun range. Figured that was a good sign I was in the right place so I set up camp nearby.
You know even these virtual conversations you're a helluva reporter, right?
I know that feeling. Like finding the fire station in the middle of Watts at 3am way before cell phones or navigation or anything.
Hadn't realized I was doing anything reporter-y but thank ya!
Exactly!