America really needs to cut down on gun lanership dramatically. Back when my parents lived there for work (this was in 2000 so things have probably changed now), they were living in Arizona. Several people at the company they were working at kept warning them to not do all these things or they'll just get shot. For instance one of the guys said to never ever honk your horn (which was pretty hard because that's all we do over here because, terrible drivers) or they'll just turn and shoot you. Even on the news there was gun violence every night, many just a few streets away.
This is just a tiny insight to what they experienced but yeah.