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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 831024" data-attributes="member: 23950"><p>Just reading a blog from an Australian point of view :</p><p> </p><p>The US is not one of the free-est nations in the world, although it does hold that ideal so that's a positive... Everyone in the US can own a gun, that in itself is not really the problem. Canada has a high gun ownership and no where near the issues... The big issue is that people in the US believe it their God given right not only to own a gun but use it to. Here, in Europe, not so big, people don't understand why a city /urban dweller has any need for a gun. And it shows up. In Australia there are rare mass shootings, as in Europe. But here they are shocking and major news. In the US there seems to be a school or other mass shooting every other week, and I understand it barely rates a mentioned in the news... </p><p> </p><p>Americans are stereotypically considered ignorant and stupid. This is stereotypical. The number of people who have "stupid American" stories is phenominal - George W Bush was considered dumb - didn't know where countries were. There was that beauty contestant who had no idea about what was American and what was not... Obviously it's not everyone but there is that stereotypical image.</p><p></p><p>Comment is oft made on America "Being the richest nation in the world yet...." - often in reference to the health system (where one third of the population has no cover, and at least half if not the same again are under covered), poverty is meant to be quite high in the US and things like Hurricane Katrina...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klein, post: 831024, member: 23950"] Just reading a blog from an Australian point of view : The US is not one of the free-est nations in the world, although it does hold that ideal so that's a positive... Everyone in the US can own a gun, that in itself is not really the problem. Canada has a high gun ownership and no where near the issues... The big issue is that people in the US believe it their God given right not only to own a gun but use it to. Here, in Europe, not so big, people don't understand why a city /urban dweller has any need for a gun. And it shows up. In Australia there are rare mass shootings, as in Europe. But here they are shocking and major news. In the US there seems to be a school or other mass shooting every other week, and I understand it barely rates a mentioned in the news... Americans are stereotypically considered ignorant and stupid. This is stereotypical. The number of people who have "stupid American" stories is phenominal - George W Bush was considered dumb - didn't know where countries were. There was that beauty contestant who had no idea about what was American and what was not... Obviously it's not everyone but there is that stereotypical image. Comment is oft made on America "Being the richest nation in the world yet...." - often in reference to the health system (where one third of the population has no cover, and at least half if not the same again are under covered), poverty is meant to be quite high in the US and things like Hurricane Katrina... [/QUOTE]
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