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Originally Posted by jwb
Yet you look at a country like el Salvador... Massive amounts of gang violence.. but how many random mass shootings?
The shooters in the US aren't the most down trodden... They're spoiled white boys with poor social skills and extremist ideas.
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^ Seems like a good point to me: two countries with high levels of violence, but the motivations/type of violence are so different. I don't really know why, but I suppose the differences have grown out of the different cultures: as you say some extremist ideas knocking around in the USA, (which I have never heard mentioned in Mexico, for example) plus in Latin America the stranglehold drug cartels have in so many areas. In the US, if you're a sociopath yearning for violence, you might find yourself shunned, but in Latin America, it'll get you a job in your local cartel.