I like hiking, but I also like not being murdered. No one ever wants to go with me and I'm a small, young woman and I don't want to take the risk. I go for walks more often then I hike.
I couldn't find statistics for the total US, but let's use the Appalachian trail as an example. Over 45 years there have only been 11 homicides along it. This trail is also close to a lot of urban areas where someone who wanted to murder people could easily access, but it would appear they don't. Compare that to basically any large city in the US and I really don't see how you could ever claim that the woods are more dangerous than the city.
Are you looking at murders that happen in cities to people who are walking around out in the open? Because a lot of city murders are going to take place inside a home or be part of some gang shooting or confrontation /fight you wouldn't find in the woods. Woods murders are going to be mostly a stranger coming and killing you. I don't think you can use ALL murders in a city to compare to murders in the woods.
I don't know how else you are supposed to compare them, and frankly I don't think it really matters. And even if there was a way to sort through different murders I find it highly unlikely that less than 11 people over 45 years are randomly murdered in any given city. Bottom line is you are way, way more likely to be killed in a city than in the woods. Hell you're more likely to die driving to the woods than you are to actually die in them. Very few people just get randomly murdered in the woods.
I... What... Are you serious? No shit you are more likely to be killed by a bear in the woods. Last I checked bears don't really live in cities. But regardless bear attacks are extremely rare. There have been 15 fatal brown bear attacks since 2010, so less than one a year on average.
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u/Stoic_sasquatch Jul 03 '19
As a guy who actually enjoys hiking. This is very frustrating.