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Originally Posted by Mystère
What's your point ? That this sort of things (I mean student(s) going to its college and killing the most people he can) mostly happens in North America is a fact, and is REALLY not understandable to me. I was only trying to get some explanations from people living there, and thus probably more aware than me of what's going on there. That's all.
BTW, France is unfortunately not a paradise, and terrorist attacks we had in Paris in 1995 had nothing to do with "angry Muslims" (although I know it's easier to think that way), but merely with political fighting between France, Algerian government and FIS (an "islamic" front who fought a terrorist war in Algeria during 10 years). Having Arabs involved in terrorism doesn't necessarly means it has something do do with a religion war (which most of the time are ordinary war, "legitimated" by religion).
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My mother used to tell me, "It's not what you say, so much as how you say it." Your comment sounded more like a rhetorical question than a legitimate one...sorry if i took it the wrong way. But so many Europeans turn their noses up on America, get a snotty, superior attitude ("Well, things like that certainly
don't happen here"...sniff), and I just get tired of reading about more America-bashing. We're not perfect, and our country has done some pretty despicable things...but as Jesus said, "Whosoever is without sin, cast the first stone." The main thing I blame for the rise in suicide massacres is television, video games and movies. We live in a culture that seems to glorify these things, and there are so many tormented and confused individuals out there who can't separate reality from fiction. A normal, well-adjusted individual who, for whatever reason, falls into depression and is exposed to high stress, isn't going to go on a killing spree. But the sad fact is that the persons who aren't well-adjusted, who have a predisposition to violence and cruelty...or even a latent streak of it...tend to gravitate to violent, sadistic media for enjoyment. then when they finally lose it, they also have access to weapons. I support the NRA, and have quite a few guns myself, but our society has such unlimited access to guns, it's not surprising that we have these episodes. You live in a free society, and it's always tricky staying away from anarchy...where do you draw the line between personal freedom and restrictions of that freedom? In a smaller, older society like in France, there are thousands of years of trials establishing a decent, orderly and free society. The US is still very young, and very large, so we will continue having to deal with situations like this...our population is still relatively unstable in our dealings with race and illegal immigrants. Hopefully, one day people will change for the better. I'm not counting on it in my lifetime.
