Traveling companion wanted to Chapala

briansue wrote:

USA has approx. three times the population of Mexico.

The point of the above line totally escapes me - as does most of the rest of the post.

Perhaps I should clarify my post. OP seems concerned about travel in Mexico due to two very unfortunate murders. Murder happens everywhere. As well as many areas of the US.

So what is the difference? In Mexico the vast majority of murders are drug related and happen to those involved in the drug trade. Yes, there are most certainly other murders. And the drug gangs do kill military and police as well as some others. But mostly not civilians and almost never tourists. In the US you can be killed for sitting in a movie theater or teaching at an elementary school or going to church or working in an office building.

I am wondering if the fact that the US has more people than Mexico means it is OK to just randomly kill people in the US? Is that what the quote above implies?

I absolutely did not mean to imply that at all. Sorry for the misunderstanding, my fault.

Thinking out load, I'd like to see a similar mass killing report from the Mexican side and compare to the USA side already presented.
Then, taking in the population ratio of Mexico to USA we might see a
more accurate assessment of potential violence to travelers.

As an aside, I did notice that a number of people recommend that one should never drive at night in Mexico especially along rural roads.