Gun control in most countries more stringent than in U.S.

John Bolton called it normalizing within the context of the U.N. John Kerry called it internationalization. It has led to failure after failure of each global U.N. mission. Whatever the definition, if people want to "comprehend" the U.S., they need to read the Constitution and stop attempting to impose their definitions of barbarism, decedance and civilization into our culture and politics. Glass houses, you know.

The Founders of this great nation left Europe in order to create a diffent society. A society dedicated to and constricted by a written constitution. The dream was to create a more perfect union stabilized by a written guarantee of personal freedoms. Freedoms not subject to politics of the day or preferencees of the current governing party, but only changeable by an arduous process subject to the will of all the people...Europe still likes kings and bureaucrats and understands little of a country that finds both distasteful.