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Sad State of America

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Dare:
Another mass shooting this time in my home city. Five dead
and nine wounded. Since Jan 1 there has been over 140 mass
shooting in the US. That's when four people have died not counting
the shooter.

Jericoke:
I do hope that you and your family and friends are okay; both physically safe, and emotionally too.  It's a lot to deal with, and it can wear on you without anything good to counterbalance it.  I hope that Louisville can move past this, and celebrate what's great about the city, state and country instead of lingering on a few bad actors.

While I highly doubt this sort of problem can be solved by discussion on an F1 fan site, here's my 2 cents anyway.

As a non American, we look at your country and see problems and they terrify us.  I think the greatest problem is that there is no agreement to actually find the root of the problem.  Is it access to firearms?  Is it mental health?  Is it access to wildly inaccurate information?  Social isolation?  Social pressure?

Politicians have always been concerned with personal power, party power, and I feel that the American 2 party system is failing the country and to a degree the world.  USA has all the ingredients to be a great country (geographical advantages, multicultural population, a large tax base for public work projects, and a large consumer base for private enterprise).  USA even has a ridiculously flexible constitution to fix any issues as they arise, clearly delineated spheres of influence for each level of government.  But as long as the people in power are more interested in power than governing, there's going to be problems, and they appear to be growing larger, not smaller.  Certainly mass shootings are awful, but it's not the only issue where Americans are suffering.

As a non American, we fear the influence of 'American style <insert here>' coming to our country.  Several of our provinces are all in on 'populist' (e.g., Trumpism) style leadership.  We have groups who want increased access to firearms, privatized health care, closed borders, active exclusion of certain groups.  Americans certainly didn't invent these problems, but it feels like when they're 'successful' there, people want them here.

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