[buccaneer81]

One need only look at the spread of incidents they've invoked - some eight decades - and compare it to similar incidents in Europe over nothing more than the preceding year to understand the differences in scale here.

Yes, but as always as Americans, when we do something, we do it big...people forget that Rodney King left 55 corpses in his wake.

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...well said and point taken. Fact is, we'd better not dive into violence too easily because we do it a little too well.

The European intelligentsia like to pretend that their countrymen were so traumatized by the events of the 20th century that they have renounced violence forever like the civilized people they really are, and presumably we are not. I have to chuckle a little. Where do they think we learned it?