America Haters

The other night Bill O'Reilly read a spiteful email sent in from a Canadian woman regarding the Virginia Tech shootings.  This snide, smug leftist said something like, "America doesn't have to worry about terrorists; it will self-destruct from within."

Sure enough, the leftists of the world are gleefully pointing to this horrible incident as more evidence that America is a total mess, awash in guns, violence and out of control, nihilist youth.

This despite daily horrific violence in Iraq as Sunnis and Shias wage their centuries old, vicious war; continued atrocities in Darfur; and drug and gang violence in South America that makes Detroit look like Mayberry.

Monday's Washington Post featured a story about drugs, gangs and the high mortaility rate in one of Rio de Janeiro's miserable shanty towns.  The story, headlined "In Rio, Death Comes Early," stated 1,857 minors were reported murdered in Rio from 2002 to 2006, according to the Institute of Public Security, a state research center.

Here's an excerpt from a story in today's Washington Post: "Shootouts involving rival drug gangs and police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday left at least 19 people dead and sent pedestrians scrambling for shelter, intensifying the Brazilian city's growing concerns about deadly violence."

Without question, the number of countries where lawlessness, squalor, violence, murders, and child exploitation go on routinely every day is too numerous to mention. The United States is definitely NOT one of those countries.

But you wouldn't know it from the selective indignation of the leftist kooks who Hate America First.

Comments

[Dan Simon]

So youre saying Brazil's worse, and thats your whole argument? Its not just leftists who believe our nation is awash with guns and violence. In fact this is true. Millions of guns are owned legally and illegally in america, and murders are a daily occurence in major cities. I agree we need guns, and i agree its safer here than in Brazil, but thats a terrible standard. We should wonder why we are a more violent society than countries such as england, germany, france,vietnam, and spain.

[Battlehound]

The endless debate about violence is proof that humanity has yet to come to grips with the fact that all men are born with the instinct and proclivity to violence. We all have it in us, and even a rabbit will bite if sufficiently provoked. I do not wonder, and I do not agree, that America is "more violent" than England, Germany, France,Viet Nam, or Spain. A passing acquaintance with world history should torpedo that quaint notion. We are all equally violent! The raghead jihadists don't know it yet, but they are in for a surprise. They think all Americans are like Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore.