[Spooky]

As someone who lived in NYC for over 19 years, I can definitely tell you it might be a good baseline; the gun crime around this time of year always spikes and the 4th of July(if you don't know what you're doing/where to be) then it can definitely be a dangerous holiday.

I am moving near manhattan, I hope the neighbourhood there is fine.

To be honest, even "nice" areas can have crime. I used to live in a pretty wealthy/posh area at Uni, and then some kid got stabbed on my street over apparently £20 of weed. You just never know for sure. You're always going to find more crime in big cities/urban areas, though.

Thats very unfortunate, but I wouldnt use UK as an example either when you are not allowed to carry more then a loud alarm for protection. Crazies go crazy because they are allowed to with no real consequence.

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I agree. It's weird, as Oni said, how these mass shootings seem to occur where laws are stricter too. I wonder why that's the case?

Because strict gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens.. and dont stop the criminals not following the gun laws..