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>>Obama again: “The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis... and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is, is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses. And that's sort of par for the course.”
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>That's a gross oversimplification by Obama.
>This country, dating back to its earliest years, has always been a violent place. Violence has usually been the first option.
>The civil war was one of the bloodiest in history.
eh... in the US perhaps, but its about nothing compared to the blood that has fled over europe throughout history.
>The lynching's of the Jim Crow period were routine occurrences.
>Texans brag about the way they execute criminals.
>We maintain the largest military force in the world- outspending, except for Russia and China, all the countries in the world combined.
>Bush easily got the congress to back the mindless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and dozens of Iraqi's continue to die every day because of the chaos wrought by that slaughter.
>The people of Minnesota actually elected a professional wrestler to be their governor. Have you ever watched professional wrestling?
>California opted for Conan the Barbarian, aka The Terminator.
>The super bowl has become a national ritual. Take a close look at what happens in an NFL game.
>Reagan said, half in jest, that he wished he could hire Rambo to do some jobs for him.
>This is a violent place. Crazy people here are more likely to do violent things than they are in say, Switzerland, because violence is a basic fact of life here.
Its not for nothing that countries like Switzerland and Finland top the chart of gun related deaths in Europe. Their rates are still several times higher (e.g. more than 10 times as high as in the UK) than the average. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rateAlso, I consider the fact that you're living in a violen society, is party due to the level of availability of guns.
