About a year or eighteen months ago somebody posted here that he intended to cycle across the USA, IIRC from West to East across the southern states.

Almost the first advice he received was that it would be dangerous to knock on a door to ask to fill up his water bottle, as he would risk being shot dead as a trespasser.

What does that say about a country whose citizens are in the main among the most friendly in the Western World?

Who made them so paranoid that all strangers are looked on with suspicion?

The NRA maybe, in its ceaseless quest to sell more guns for the arms manufacturers?

Don T.