This is a great exercise in perspective taking - you might want to point out to your mom that the rest of the world is currently convinced the US is a place full of crazy loners shooting guns left and right, but of course this isn’t true, just as the rest of the world isn’t full of unsafe hellholes either. You always feel safer with the devil you know…
Reminds me of the postgrad in Oxford who told me, with a big eye roll, that his grandma was freaked out about a bombing in London and wanted him to come home to be safer…in Israel.