Bodies of Australian surfers found in Sinaloa

briansue wrote:
Please do not take this wrong. I am not attempting to throw the US under the bus. Just a statement of fact. Not trying to compare apples to oranges or anything else. For informational purposes only. I have posted this before. According to the FBI and the US Dept of Justice reports there are about 38,000 carjackings in the US each year on average. By their definition they are not talking about truck hijacking or car theft but specifically a car taken from its occupants by force - often using a weapon - weapon is often a gun. I forget the number of injuries or deaths in these statistics. It can all be found online but I am not going to search for it again. These things can happen to anyone just about anywhere. Their are gangs in the US too.

But, but, but it has been mentioned several times that we should not live in fear. And, that we should not be fearful of RVing in Mexico, etc. Just going by what you've posted above (including statistics), I'm going to go ahead and take it as living, and RVing, in the USA is as dangerous and perhaps even more dangerous than in Mexico. SOooo, this would imply that I'm either naive, OR do NOT live in fear...:B
Actually, I prefer my assessment. One should simply be informed, and take whatever precautions are necessary to allow one to venture into today's world in comfort. IOW do whatever you want,.....which is what I do. And now, everyone's happy.
BTW I'm young enough to be able to see good enough to drive at night, no problems in that regard in 75 years. Except, I finally concluded that night-time was invented for sleeping...:B