The violent nature of American culture is due to a combination of things. The media, our history, our country's current foreign affairs, and especially our tendency not to trust one another. The American media, especially the local news, reports mostly stories that are violent in nature, and often tends to scare Americans into watching by advertising exclusive footage of some horrible crime. This motivation has encouraged Americans to feel fear for no real reason, and a society that dwells on fear lives in a frightening environment. .
Our history has been bloody with wars and violence, but it is no more violent the history of currently less violent countries, such as England and Germany. The differences in our history and theirs are the key. America marched tens of thousands of the people who were here first down and out of their homes. America bought people from a distant continent to come and work for free and for life. And America was split into two parts by a war in which villages were burned and civilians were killed by both sides. These are the factors of American history that no one wants to take responsibility for. America just gives land, or casinos, or freedom and gets away free of charge. In this aspect, America is sort of like a gangster that bribes the witnesses of a crime to keep his neck off the chopping block.
America's historical warpath is so long and well walked that no one seems to notice a small middle eastern nation being bombed day after day, and that bombs are misaimed and innocents are killed far too often. American culture has warped the purpose of fighting from defending one's country to getting whatever you want. .
America was a nation founded by great men, and on great ideas. But nobody's perfect. The second amendment was an offer of unneeded freedom. The constitution could have been just as sacred and signed without it.
