America is not world.

You know that around half the Europe was under USSR power for half a century? They had guns also. Also we didn't need guns to get free from their control

Still two facts remain:
1) weapons didn't help us keep our freedom
2) weapons didn't help us getting it back

Troll?

Actually, any suggestions on South American countries to visit? Would basic Spanish be acceptable there?

Come to Mexico, it's great! Amarillion has come before, you can ask him if you don't believe me.

Oh, they love their country; but they get paid better in the USA. And that's only because their American bosses don't want them to leave.

The current president of the United States has been doing his duty as the president of the United States. Disagreeing with that doesn't make it right to oppose the government. The government has a lot more information than the general public does, and the majority of anti-Bush activists are probably anti-war activists, which proves that they don't know how the world works.

If a group did decide to oppose the government, the very suggestion of allowing them guns to do so suggests that it wouldn't be a surrender. I can't say for sure, but to say that the President has absolute power is absurd. It's not a dictatorship. The President represents the people. He is fed information by many people beneath him who are fed information beneath them. The process is long and the final decision is a collective decision. And if the people can justify opposition you can expect that either that soldier won't pull the trigger or the people will fight it (along with other politicians that want the seat).

When you vote in the President in he doesn't command America like that of some Asian (or European?) dictatorship countries.

I think it's misleading to say that America has moderately more violent people. America is attractive to criminals because the resources exist to take advantage of. You take the good with the bad, I guess. When American fugitives are on the run they often run to Canada or more often Mexico. I'd say that Mexico is quite likely a lot more dangerous place to be than America.

Although America, like any well developed nation, has some rougher neighborhoods and cities, it also has many peaceful communities that very rarely see homicides. Keep in mind that America (or Canada) is about the size of two or three Europes (estimated). So when considering America as a whole you have to compare to two or three Europes (or maybe Europe and the Middle East collectively ) for a closer comparison.

According to an article I found in 2004, Glasglow, Scotland had a higher murder rate than fucking New York, NY!!

This I believe to be inaccurate.

I viewed your profile and knew you were from America... Your post also is highly suggestive that you are from America... Chill. I apologize if it was unclear which statements were directed to you versus the world.

I happen to live on the American border. It's not like I'm across the fucking world. I didn't really disagree with what you said, but thought that at least that one line was misleading.

Apparently my estimation was way off... Also I could swear the borders of Europe have changed since high school... Anyway, you can still compare America to one Europe.

Most Western Countries being what? Most western countries don't compare to America in size, economy, population, or anything else... There are far more variables you have to consider to get a valid comparison.

Again, I live on the border of the USA. I would say that much of Michigan is safe. There are some neighborhoods some might avoid, especially in Detroit, but that is expected of a major city. I have family that moved outside of Detroit and they have never had any problems with crime.

Contrary to popular belief, many Americans do not own guns and many (perhaps even the majority?) go through their lives with no problems.

The borders of Europe change almost every year...

Only one person I know has ever been shot at. My friend Roman, who was sneaking out of a girl's window when her mother walked in with a shotgun. She missed.

Haha!

Cousins of mine have had guns pulled on them in Canada. As I mentioned earlier, a strapped and loaded drug pusher (not a dealer, a pusher) was living in the same house as my ex-friend. That house happened to be right beside our college as well. And the Hell's Angels came after him there, apparently.

There's really no way to prevent it in this day and age. Perhaps when the world becomes more Half-Life 2 ish.

You can definitely avoid it most of the time. Shootings like this are rare. And the students were safe. Only 32 of 20000 were killed. It's heart breaking for the victim's families, but people die everyday.

I didn't (don't) really care about geography so I probably didn't pay too much attention. In fact, grade 9 geography was my last geography class and I didn't do much in that class. Geography isn't one of my subjects. Besides, it's Europe!

Oh, maybe I see now. A couple of sources said that a portion of Russia is sometimes considered part of Europe because they share political and social ties with Europe, however, the country is still considered Asian. It really all depends on how you look at it, but I personally would call all of Russia Asian, geographically speaking.

The European sect of Russia is apparently 3,960,000 sq. Km. so if you subtract from the previous area given of 10,180,000 sq. Km. you are left with only 6,220,000 sq. Km. Russia is not Europe!

Apparently the Russia portion of Europe has a population of 106,037,143. So I would say that Europe's actual population is closer to 603,962,857.

ALRIGHT, WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE! Even those figures are off!! A number of Asian countries are considered "Europe" by Europeans! When I get home I'll subtract all of those as well and give the RIGHT numbers. ;D

I knew that didn't compute. ;)