dude they held a world cup in south africa
They don't have that many guns in South Africa, do they?
The murder rate in South Africa is almost 8 times that of the USA.
SA: 45 murders/100,000 people
USA: 6 murders/100,000 people
I always love when whiney white American liberals are confronted with the reality that there are in fact worse places to live on Earth than the US.
Speaking as both a South African AND a whiney (nationalized) American liberal, they both have their positives and negatives. In some ways it's a libertarian paradise - If you can afford to privately afford yourself the amenities that most Americans would trust to the government (for example, most middle class and above people have private armed security firms/investigation agencies that they would trust ahead of the police), you can live a very comfortable life on comparatively very little money. My parents both moved back to SA because they found US life to be exhausting.
I will say, I had trouble sleeping when I first moved to the USA. My home in South Africa was essentially a compound with electric fences, perimeter walls, alarm sensors etc, and I couldn't believe my US home was just exposed to the street -- anyone could just walk in!
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