>>I love this shooting chat. It makes you Americans seem so exotic :-)
The US is the land of extremes. Extreme bad, but also extremely good in many ways. So far it has been possible for general society mostly to isolate itself from the very bad and while there is more publicity of crazy stuff in the age of the internet, the closest most Americans come to these events is seeing it on the news.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
