Not to be a Halloween Scrooge but I don’t like that everyone uses stencils to carve their pumpkins now. Jack-o-lanterns are supposed to be extremely unimpressive. You should have a vision in your head and then not be able to execute it. That’s what Halloween is all about.
When I lived in England I had a conversation with an elementary aged child that, unprompted, said she would never want to go to America for fear of getting shot. To this day, I still think about how sad but realistic that concept is for children in America.