Let us just all take jabs at chicagokid about things we dont know
This kinda implies Chacaho kid is right.
Great question and a fair one. Thank you! Tricky one, but let me have a crack at it. No, i dont mean to imply he is right. Gun culture instantly comes to mind. I'd wager, heavily, the overwhelming majority of the posters here haven't lived in the US, and have never, ever, held a gun, let alone shot one. Yet here they are passing judgement on the rights and wrongs of another country's core values. And sure, going without stops to the 'school shootings' argument looks like an easy way out. It looks like a fairish argument at first, granted, but it is precisely there where the hypocrisy lies. It's a bit like an old boys club getting together on a friday for some pints to criticize, again and again, something 5000 kms away in a place they've only visited a couple of times for holidays, touching the tourist traps and then coming back home to brag about how much you know about it to the guys at the local pub. That is **** poor.
Some of you talk about these issues with such a sense of entitlement that is hard to build anything from such a starting point. Talk to a south african, new zealander or argentinean about gun laws. What's it like, what do people do, what do people think about it? All you need to do is @ someone from that place. Yet no one does it. Why? Because they believe they already know better.
Let me be clear: you do not have to accept his point of view nor his opinion, but dear lord grant him the benefit of the doubt every now and then and accept that he lives there and you get your news from online media reports and soc med. There are levels to this game and you are disregarding this.
And the twisting of words, the hypocrisy...
For every post about people being arrested for soc med in the ku i will find at least 2 posts about school shootings. Easily. What does that have to do? Well, it's a forum that is overwhelmingly european and somehow, conveniently, a pretty gigantic european problem is rarely addressed and another one from across the pond is. And when it does everyone lays the smack on the same poster. I do see a pretty crystal clear trend. An obvious one.
Half the posters here post as if they genuinely felt they know better about the us than the people who live there. It goes unnoticed among you (plural!) because, well, it's a generalized behaviour, so it doesnt stand out. I guess not being from either, but having lived in both, gives me a different perspective. For whatever reason, i can see it 10 miles away.
TL/DR?: no, he is not necessarily right. I dont think he even gets a fair chance to be heard and whether you like it or not, he has more on-the-ground experience than all of you combined on some of the subjects being discussed here yet he gets treated like an ignoramus who can barely begin sentences with capital letters and end them with a punctuation mark, who drinks montain dew for breakfast and sings hee haw lullabies to his 2 year old-but already gun carrying- toddler. That stereotypization (?) is as ignorant, if not more, than the ignorance it tries to address and make fun of.
