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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Well to the bolded part, its not our fault Americans are so insanely paranoid they have to outspend the next 20 countries combined on defense. If we had to spend more, we would, but since we have a crazy cousin who is always concinved someone is coming and thus must spend trillions to keep the boogeymonsters at bay, why waste the money? America overprotectionism is to our benefit.
As to your other part, I said the story of the guy executing the salesman for "trespassing" was an "Only in America" story. Those other things you mention were pre-planned killing events, which obviously can happen anywhere. This was a random execution. Find me a story of something similar (i.e. random person shoots other random person, no planning, completely random). The only thing I can think of thats close is the Greyhound beheading a few years ago, but even then you can go with the insanity claim. Find me a story of someone in London, or Johannesburg or Berlin walking down the street and being executed for really no reason whatsoever.
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I don't think they spend more because they're paranoid. They spend because they have a government that loves to spend, and the whole military industry machine that loves making money.