Comment by rsynnott

I wouldn't be at all worried about the guns; realistically while your chances of being shot or otherwise murdered are substantially higher in the US than in most of Europe, they are still, in the scheme of things, very low, and you're at greater practical risk of death in the taxi from the airport.

FWIW there has _not_ been an increase in violent crime in the US since 2014; it's down a bit since then. The media does seem far more fixated on it, granted.

However, the increasing border nonsense would put me off. Particularly because, if I decide now to go to something in, say, June, well, who knows _how_ bad it'll be by June. I'll likely try to avoid going over for the foreseeable future.