Maru:
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I simply couldn't live in USA. In my opinion, it's a fucked-up country. Charming at times, lots of enthusiasm and stuff - but oh - the violence, the hypocrisy, the go-fuck-yourself mentality that permeates the whole society.
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I actually like the US, despite all the BS :-) The only reason I would not wish to live there is because there are no freedoms - that is a fallacy.
On violence.. yea.. far more than I suspect the average "citizen" thinks from a load of govt stats.
I have a friend (called "X") in the US who swears by a gun (or two!) - it is just "necessary" since you have to assume the "other guy" has one. X is involved in "law" in the US and it is now expected when we speak on the phone that guns were drawn at least once a week - this can range from stupid kids holding up stores to X's car being sprayed by automatic fire.
It is rare for press reports, but sometimes, there are other reasons why reporting is not "desireable" at that time. In 19 years, three of X's partners have been "downed" - it may be for selfish reasons, by I'd like to see X well out of that world, but it is a world X thinks is "normal"!! Stupid Hollywood movies ain't a patch on this
The US is one violent society!