Peace Loving Americans ?

Americans love to picture themselves as the good guys -- the ones protecting the whole world for freedom and justice. They'll tell you in a heartbeat that the United States is a peace-loving country. It's all those other countries that force us to fight and kill people -- thousands of people (whether they've done anything to us or not -- it's called collateral damage). But the truth is that this has always been a violent country and still is. And it likely always will be, since we don't seem to learn from our past experiences.

The excellent blogger, Badtux the Snarky Penguin, says it very well. And this quote from him was just too good (and too true) not to pass it on:

"Americans per capita kill more of each other than any other nation on the planet. That is truth, easily verifiable by looking at murder statistics. Americans in the history of the planet have killed more of other peoples than any other people, indeed, glorifies it with several movies every year celebrating Americans killing unseemly uncivilized brown people. Every inch of America used to belong to other people and was seized at gunpoint or fraud from the previous owners.

In short, Americans are the most violent people on the planet -- and proud of it."