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If that's the case, then my general answer would be that the US is not as bad as social media and other media conglomerates make things out to be. One reason being is the media figured out a while back that tactics such as fear-mongering gained more people's attention. Therefore people were more likely to read their newspapers and see their advertisements, etc. (i.e. clickbait)
Now that I have been, mostly, limiting my self to the Associated Press and National Public Radio I don't feel things such as impending doom.
Statistics do say that it is safer now than ever before, but viscerally it doesn't feel that way, which is by it so.... unpleasant.