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.
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?