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raccoon

(31,111 posts) Fri Sep 9, 2022, 07:26 AM Sep 2022

Non-Americans who live in a country that has sensible gun laws,

Non-Americans who live in a country that has sensible gun laws, Why would you visit the United States—Where anybody can buy a gun, even an AR 15 –unless you are visiting relatives or Close friends?

Because as an American if I Didn’t already live here I wouldn’t visit for any other reason.

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Non-Americans who live in a country that has sensible gun laws, (Original Post) raccoon Sep 2022 OP

We have a dramatic landscape that dwarfs anything Europe has to offer. Ferryboat Sep 2022 #1

The Alps can stand toe-to-toe with any of our mountain ranges. maxsolomon Sep 2022 #5

I'd go to America to see Big Sur then get out really quickly if my kids didn't live here. lark Sep 2022 #2

Get thee to the Pacific Northwest Ferryboat Sep 2022 #3

Coming from FL, not sure I could afford to live there. lark Sep 2022 #6

I suspect the answer is the same as that of the millions of tourists who come here... brooklynite Sep 2022 #4

Just a guess sarisataka Sep 2022 #7

Ferryboat

(922 posts)

1. We have a dramatic landscape that dwarfs anything Europe has to offer.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 09:12 AM

Sep 2022

Every summer I meet groups of Europeans who have rented a RV and are doing a grand tour of the national park system. The vastness the west is very attractive.

Gun culture in this country is insane. Easy access to high capacity firearms is a issue that will take tremendous political will and generations to solve.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

5. The Alps can stand toe-to-toe with any of our mountain ranges.

Reply to Ferryboat (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:48 AM

Sep 2022

We do have deserts that are considerably safer to visit than the Sahara or the Middle East.

lark

(23,118 posts)

2. I'd go to America to see Big Sur then get out really quickly if my kids didn't live here.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 09:32 AM

Sep 2022

We were seriously considering moving to NZ, but the couple that was going to sponsor us broke up and moved to Canada. Boo!! Now I don't know what we will do if the reich wing takes over in 2024 since we live in dumbfuckistan - aka Florida. Maybe we could sell our house/land and buy part of a friends' land in CA and move there - maybe? But she has other friends who live out east and would there be room for all of us and could we even sell in those conditions?

We do have a rifle and a gun - but they are stored away and I never want to have to get them out! Scary times are coming.

Ferryboat

(922 posts)

3. Get thee to the Pacific Northwest

Reply to lark (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:42 AM

Sep 2022

Moderate temperatures, lots of water. Anywhere north of Seattle is good for the most part.

lark

(23,118 posts)

6. Coming from FL, not sure I could afford to live there.

Reply to Ferryboat (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:52 AM

Sep 2022

I do love it there and my aunt & cousin live north of Seattle. Maybe it's time we paid them a visit and looked around? We've avoided planes for the last 3 years, but we could reconsider that?

brooklynite

(94,602 posts)

4. I suspect the answer is the same as that of the millions of tourists who come here...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:44 AM

Sep 2022

The odds of actually being shot in the United States are still vanishingly small.

sarisataka

(18,671 posts)

7. Just a guess

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Sep 9, 2022, 12:19 PM

Sep 2022

Is that most tourists can look at the numbers and realize the chances of being a gun homicide victim are vanishingly small even in our "epidemic" of violence.

They are willing to take that risk, along with the much greater risk of driving in the US, to visit some of the many sites a large country offers.

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