Have you met people? They are unpredictable. You might get shot just for asking somebody politely to turn off their speaker.
In fact, I was once on a bus where somebody got stabbed because they asked some guy to stop playing music through his boombox (yes, I’m old).
Yeah…
I think people are likely to be as violent in most countries, but usually they have to use knives or acid or something like that. For what it’s worth, I would far rather be shot than have acid thrown on me.
But yeah. It’s a realistic thing that you have to take into account that you could be shot if you anger somebody.
This is a boomer level of paranoia, and the logic is akin to “I once lived next door to a serial killer, so now I assume that all of my neighbors are serial killers”.
There are many places where its best not to play with the odds. And that person you replied to literally had real life experience backing it up. Theres a type of American that cannot stand being told what to do or someone suggesting they are wrong.
There’s a type of person who thinks that their “lived experience” trumps facts or logic. That’s why you have people who justify their racism based on a few bad experiences they had with black people or something. I try not to get in arguments with those people, because it’s a waste of time.