I think you're taking a handful of bad incidents and using them to describe an entire country. America absolutely has problems. There are bad police officers. There are wrongful shootings. There are cases where rights get violated. Nobody serious denies that. But watching YouTube videos of police encounters all day is not the same thing as understanding what happens across an entire country. YouTube is literally designed to show the most shocking and controversial incidents because that's what gets clicks. You also seem to be mixing up several different issues. Openly carrying a rifle doesn't mean someone is mentally ill. Millions of Americans own firearms and never commit a crime. Whether you agree with open carry or not, exercising a legal right is not evidence of a psychiatric problem. As for trespassing laws, that's not how they work. In most places in the U.S., you cannot simply shoot someone because they stepped onto your property or ignored a sign. The legal standards for self-defense are generally much more complicated than that. The examples you gave are tragic, but every country can produce tragic stories. I can find stories from Europe of people being stabbed, run over, attacked by terrorists or killed because of mistakes. That doesn't mean I would describe all of Europe as a dangerous place. The reality is that America is a huge country with over 340 million people, 18,000 law enforcement agencies, and hundreds of millions of police interactions every year. If you only look at the worst incidents, you're going to get a very distorted picture. It's fair to criticize problems in the U.S. It's not fair to pretend YouTube clips represent everyday life for most Americans.
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