Thank you.

Bravo, Brandy Grote!!! *stands up, applauding*

I've always said the problem the US has is the lobbying. How isn't they corruption?!

Now that you mention it, I recall watching a documentary that explained how lobbists stopped America from having a more humane health care, during all that Obama Care backlash. They showed how lobbists managed to manipulate the masses into thinking how bad that was, successfully keeping the status quo.

@Herb: this would be against the law in most other countries because it is corruption!

My country just passed a law allowing business sponsorship of politicians and I'm highly concerned about what this could mean for the future. We are very corrupt as it is and now they're making it legal.

That problem is not specific to the US... it happens in other countries, too, e.g. here in Germany. Car industry and agriculture lobbies are among the most powerful.

The young country doesn't really work as an explanation anymore. There are a lot of younger coyntries who have made it work, mine included. Finland is a bit over 100 years old and, dispite our problems, statisticly the best country in the world.

"I love America. She is worth fighting for." I agree with you on that, if what you mean with "fighting for" is fighting for change from within, fighting for positive changes to create a better America tomorrow. The sad and terrible truth is that "fighting for America" usually seems to involve destroying other people`s countries, on other continents. You need to rein in the so-called "defense" industry, they are the only ones to gain.

Media report on the mass shootings etc, but a lot of the world hate is because of Trump. He uses his platform to get his messages out to the masses. He directly controls the stuff he says on twitter, and I'm sorry but the stuff he says is awful. I've lived in America. My boyfriend is American. Yeah you have great people, but your president speaks for you all, and he is perpetuating hate and intolerance, and you guys really need to fight harder to stop stuff like that. When I lived in America, I had a small fear in the back of my mind when going to do anything-- movie opens, fairs, concerts, etc... because of the shootings. That's not the media. The US is the only first world country to have that many mass shootings per capita. You guys are top 10, and all the other countries on the list, are all 'developing' countries. You're also second worldwide on all firearms deaths. Mexico has less of both. I love America too, but things need to change.

Lol yet Americans are the FIRST to believe and be totally butthurt about EVERY SINGLE FALSE THING the media says about Islam and Muslim countries. Not all Muslims are the eay they are portrayed, yet EVERY MUSLIM is a terrorist in Americas eyes. Ignorance is your only bliss!

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The media shows you what's wrong and you're blaming them? You should be trying to fix those until the media has nothing negative to report.

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America is dope but blaming the media for reporting actual things that are wrong is so dumb that only an American could think that way.

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Are brown and black people allowed?

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Young?! %&#!@§ The Czech Republic is young, pal. America is not.

P.s. CANADA IS 1000000 TIMES BETTER THAN AMERICA, and the fact that they deny it and give you guys so much s**t, just goes to show how butthurt they are about how much better good old Canada is! SOOO jealous!

I know in Canada in grade 8 our school had us doing them, I think it was after Columbine? After that year though we never did them again. I am pretty happy with where Canada's gun laws currently are. I could never move down south!

American politicians are supporting the adorers of guns: Gop Senator Pat Toomey: We can't ban assault weapons because they're popular.... LMAO. Basically they all are just waiting for another disgruntled person to do a mass shooting so they can blame videogames again ....

Lol Americans are the EPITOME of butthurt!!!

Yes, this IS the dystopia. Why the f**k do people seem hell bent on waiting for it to get even worse before getting involved?? Refusing to vote is not rebellion; it is submission!!

And you got voted down by the corporate boot-lickers. Here, have an up-vote for stating the facts.

I agreed with all that you said, but you had to put in there "(looking at you, Red states)"... Red and Blue are equally to blame - one is just more brazen about it, the other tries to pretend they're working "for the good". They are both to blame.

Continued: It was several hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't remember the exact value as I would have to go back through our financial stack of disappointments, but even with the company paying for his surgeries in full, my entire life savings for college went to his rehabilitation and stay at the hospital. I am glad that we had that money for him and not my future. I prefer having him over my education, but that half a minute accident changed my family's entire life. Not because he was affected to the point where he couldn't walk or talk, he is the same man as before and even continued truck driving later on, but because of those damn medical bills. I just finished my degree this past May, so you can add on another set of dollars to our debt. This was never a country of "opportunity." It isn't even a country. It's a "business."