Thoughts and Prayers Break Out in Birmingham, Alabama

@Badfeeder Why do you think Americans are the problem? Are Americans far more mentally ill than any other nation on earth? Or do you think the ready access to weapons specifically designed to kill large numbers of people quickly and efficiently contributes?

@windinhishair GREAT QUESTION. I am from the Northeast so I have a weird sense of America overall. I think that america is the greatest, in the sense of the boilerplate-mixing-it-all-together way. We have a wild spectrum of life here. 1st world country, check out the boonies, absolute third world country, anyhow i digress. we are not more wild or sane or whatnot, but we do have way too much access to weapons that can be obtained and used as you say for mass murder. we also have an honesty problem. honesty doesn't pay and no one is truly honest with themselves.

@Badfeeder Not to mention that as a nation, we have a strong gun culture. One that has metastacized in the past couple of generations into a "gun fetish" culture, where gun ownership has become almost a religion and overrides everything else. I don't know how you reign that in now that it has occurred. Your honesty hypothesis is interesting. I think you may be on to something there.