I have lived in New York for 10 years and came back to Japan and got married and got a kid. So I totally agree with you. I can’t live in the States with my son because he often gets flu or high temperature and I have to take him to a doctor. But in the States you don’t know how much you have to pay!! You will die after seeing the bill! And nobody has guns except the police. It makes the country safe.
America has always been a highly violent country to live in. The major difference with today's violence is the bipolarization of people's attitudes towards crime. Up until recently, all of us (regardless of political belief) can agree that violence, riots, looting, stealing, shoplifting are criminal acts that need to be prosecuted and that we need more police to protect the public. With the Democrat's intentional and deliberate policy of decriminalization to advance their own political agenda and all the progressive liberals' blind, unwavering and lemming support of such policies, we cannot even agree on something as basic as anti-crime. It is so sad to see how far our society has fallen. You're better off living in Japan where you are safe.