• pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      There are definitely ridiculous people all throughout the world, the US doesn’t have a monopoly on them. We just have more people than like 95% of other countries (IIRC only China and India have more people) and those people happen to have wide access to tech, and money to do dumb shit like this.

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          11 months ago

          My guess is that WWII caused pretty much everyone in Europe to experience how horrible machine guns are for both the winners and losers while it still remained a bit abstract for those in the Americas.

          Also, USA hasn’t been screwed over by an arms race yet, while Europe has.