>>2384314>Is hiking in the USA safe?Anon, the crime rate in the US for the year of 2021 was 398.5. For comparison, the crime rate in the UK was 77.49. That is a little over 5x...
The US is a third world country in a Gucci belt. There were six mass shootings in the past week, at a rate of nearly one per day. Then there are the constant stream of articles on people disappearing without rhyme or reason when they are /out/. And I mean disappearing entirely, without leaving traces of a body behind. How many people vanish on the AT every year?
Then there are stories like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_the_Hatchet-Wielding_HitchhikerYou figure that if wandering axe murderers are so common that it becomes an internet phenomenon, things have to be absurdly dangerous there.
