I totally agree with all of this. I always tell people I feel safer abroad because I know most of the people I come in contact with are Not carrying a gun. I also defend going to large US cities because I stay in tourist areas, know areas to avoid, and not out after 11. In place of my wedding ring I usually a cheap ring.
I was asked this same question when I lived in South Africa, by white South Africans, when I told them about trips I'd taken in other parts of the continent. They just didn't have any concept of what it was like to travel outside their own country, and just assumed everywhere was dangerous.
Carrying a gun across borders seems like the most ridiculous thing. All the paperwork, and are you honestly prepared to shoot someone in a foreign country?
It kinda goes with the assumption that I’m English because I speak English. SMH. Can you imagine the paperwork and then trial of the gun scenarios? no thanks.
the Oaxaca robbery sounds scary because of guns and just the idea that tourist groups can be targeted. The guns make robbery easier. I just hope we wont see more of that because tourism has a positive side for tourist and the country. Thanks for your research and have safe travels. I have been reading about Oaxaca and how lovely it is. You just never know what u can run into. In US it can be 7-11 or co worker ...not sure what my point is...there are more dangerous places but unlikely suprising places too
I have predicted that at some point, there's gonna be a mass shooting, and it's basically gonna be all the good guys with the gun shooting each other... The first shot might get popped off by a bad guy.... But if nobody knows exactly who the bad guy is, (think... The shooting that occurred in a movie theater years ago... The shooter could immediately disappear in the dark) how are all the good guys that are standing up with their guns gonna know who to shoot at?
Also, there have been studies showing people who are carrying a pistol... They didn't know that they were part of an experiment. They thought they were being trained how do carry and use a gun an emergency situations. And they had received that training. During part of the training, they would be carrying basically a paintball handgun. They then put them in different situations, and unbeknownst them, an "armed shooter" was planted amongst them. Not a one of them managed to pull their gun out before being hit with a paintball by the arm shooter.
This is why police our training for hundreds of hours to know how to use their gun in a stressful situation. A ten hour gun safety course isn't gonna do that
I totally agree with all of this. I always tell people I feel safer abroad because I know most of the people I come in contact with are Not carrying a gun. I also defend going to large US cities because I stay in tourist areas, know areas to avoid, and not out after 11. In place of my wedding ring I usually a cheap ring.
The 11 pm curfew is key.
I was asked this same question when I lived in South Africa, by white South Africans, when I told them about trips I'd taken in other parts of the continent. They just didn't have any concept of what it was like to travel outside their own country, and just assumed everywhere was dangerous.
Carrying a gun across borders seems like the most ridiculous thing. All the paperwork, and are you honestly prepared to shoot someone in a foreign country?
It kinda goes with the assumption that I’m English because I speak English. SMH. Can you imagine the paperwork and then trial of the gun scenarios? no thanks.
the Oaxaca robbery sounds scary because of guns and just the idea that tourist groups can be targeted. The guns make robbery easier. I just hope we wont see more of that because tourism has a positive side for tourist and the country. Thanks for your research and have safe travels. I have been reading about Oaxaca and how lovely it is. You just never know what u can run into. In US it can be 7-11 or co worker ...not sure what my point is...there are more dangerous places but unlikely suprising places too
Ive been back to Oaxaca three times. I love Mexico. I believe our incident was a one-off fluke and it hasn't kept me from loving Oaxaca.
I have predicted that at some point, there's gonna be a mass shooting, and it's basically gonna be all the good guys with the gun shooting each other... The first shot might get popped off by a bad guy.... But if nobody knows exactly who the bad guy is, (think... The shooting that occurred in a movie theater years ago... The shooter could immediately disappear in the dark) how are all the good guys that are standing up with their guns gonna know who to shoot at?
Also, there have been studies showing people who are carrying a pistol... They didn't know that they were part of an experiment. They thought they were being trained how do carry and use a gun an emergency situations. And they had received that training. During part of the training, they would be carrying basically a paintball handgun. They then put them in different situations, and unbeknownst them, an "armed shooter" was planted amongst them. Not a one of them managed to pull their gun out before being hit with a paintball by the arm shooter.
This is why police our training for hundreds of hours to know how to use their gun in a stressful situation. A ten hour gun safety course isn't gonna do that