We're not only talking about swatting. Add to that death due to firearms, drug epidemic, extraordinary rate of incarceration per capita. There are a lot of statistical coincidences and anomalies, at some point you gotta ask whether it's worth the risk.
If I were living in sub-Saharian Africa, would it make sense to move to the US? Without a doubt. From the United Kingdom or the Netherlands? Ehhh, I don't know about that. These statistical differences would have a much bigger weight given all the other similarities.
Most of the pull of the US is due to propaganda rather than actual increased standards of living. "The land of the free" and all.
If I were living in sub-Saharian Africa, would it make sense to move to the US? Without a doubt. From the United Kingdom or the Netherlands? Ehhh, I don't know about that. These statistical differences would have a much bigger weight given all the other similarities.
Most of the pull of the US is due to propaganda rather than actual increased standards of living. "The land of the free" and all.