I have complete sympathy for their decisions. Please vote from a distance. It will be a chance to change the course of the country.

This escalation in gun violence occurred after the assault weapon ban expired in, I think it was 2004. That was 15 years ago, nearly a generation. The USA has been experiencing a SHIFT IN IT'S BASELINE when it comes to violence, especially gun violence. The children born and growing up in a violent gun culture doesn't know anything else. The people in this article do remember when the USA was a mostly safe and pleasant place to live. Fifteen after the expiration of the assault weapon ban, this country is not the same.

August 7, 2019
By Lisa Belkin

Eleanor Pelta (click here) has secured Polish passports for herself and her two sons. Stephanie Schwab is planning an escape route via Spain. Elie Jacobs has begun to keep enough cash on hand to buy last-minute plane tickets to Israel for his family. Alex and Aussa Lorens are applying for work visas in Australia, while Josh Lewin is aiming for New Zealand.

And Kami Lewis Levin already has her bags packed and tickets purchased. She leaves next week, with her husband, three children and a dog, for a new home in Costa Rica.

Americans are not flocking to the exits, but some of them are thinking about it, and some are talking about it, and at least a few are acting on the idea. Google searches for terms like “how to move out of America” spiked this past weekend to levels not seen since November 2016, right after the presidential election, and last seen a decade ago during the Great Recession. And in dozens of interviews after the massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, people who were born here spoke of their crystallizing desire to leave....