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“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It's not downplaying it at all, I'm saying gun violence being a significant factor in choosing not to travel in the US is pretty ridiculous.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Gun violence in the U$ is absolutely ridiculous. Not wanting to travel to a country that looses population to preventable issues like this is a no brainer.

    https://theconversation.com/us-gun-crime-why-tourists-are-being-warned-to-avoid-and-beware-205906

    Countries even warn their citizens like the US is some kind of violent third world nation. It would be embarrassing if the US gave a fuck, but they don't.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    As someone who grew up in one of the more dangerous cities in the US, you generally have to be making obviously risky decisions to get shot by most of the (legally or otherwise) gun carrying population. The biggest risk by far, and why I actually would not suggest people visit the US right now, is the government and ICE being totally out of control. They're more likely to shoot a tourist than a regular local

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Meh, I have seen someone shot over road rage and it wasn't even their fault. I have been robbed at gun point in Tri-cities in Eastern Washington, not exactly a big city. I know a women who got murdered by her husband for talking to another man.

    A lot of people die senselessly from guns in the US, but I get your point.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely not denying that it's a problem, just trying to provide context to the idea that everyone in the US will shoot you just for existing or that bullets are just constantly whizzing through the air at all hours.

    I've had guns pointed at me as well, and funnily enough, more have been from jumpy pigs than from regular people

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    Not everyone, but there is a strange mix of gangsters and rednecks that will absolutely kill you over nothing.

    I have had more people pull guns on me than officers and I would rather it be an officer any day over a road rager or a drug addict.

    Having said that, there is definitely something to the nervous with a tool officer pulling their gun out in fear that is very unsettling. Also, it is always your fault if an officer shoots, even when it is clearly not your fault. I really hate that.

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