By the way; I want to point out that my response was not in order to complain about the USA. Rockzmom asked why I thought it was in "self destruct mode", so I gave my answer.
I don't feel strongly about it what Americans do within their own borders.

I may think certain phenomenons are self-destructive for a nation, but I may be wrong, and even if I'm not, it's not really my problem. Some of the arguments for gun ownership make sense, if you see the mindset of those that argue it.
I save my big US rants for the foreign policy. Wars and meddling abroad.

As for the whole debates about homosexuality, violence as entertainment, pornography or wide-spread gun ownership. There are of course arguments and counter arguments for either side of this. My personal view is that all of the above are destructive for a society, see Rome, Greece which escalated all of these as they began to crumble. But it's just a view, and if the majority of Americans don't agree, that's their business.

I respect uHoHexplode's cultural position on this - I'm aware that there is a cultural different view on this. Widespread availability of weapons makes these massacres easier to perpetrate, but if that's a price Americans are willing to pay, then it's not my business. It might well be that there is so many weapons already in circulation that a ban would just be meaningless anyway. If I was American, I would be concerned about the massacres though, and what drives so many people to do it. Why does it happen almost weekly in the USA, but not in China, Russia or even the EU? What is the underlying cause?

As for gun ownership in Russia - aren't a lot of the weapons simply what people keep for hunting/shooting wild game in the forest? I guess there are also weapons used by gangsters in the 90s still around.

But Russia doesn't have gun shops like the USA has, does it? Or normal people who imagine they need to walk around armed, or keep firearms at home to "protect themselves".

About the plans for world government which UhOhx mentioned, well - here in London we have people from every corner of the world in large quantities, the internet connects us to anywhere we want in the world. We have a CCTV camera in every 15 metres or so in urban areas, and where you'd least expect it in the countryside. We use the same global payment methods as the rest of the Western World. (Visa, Mastercard and international banks). There is UN and EU as global organs.

I definitely think that the super state or world government is coming. All the development is in that direction. And I don't think it will be nice. Like all Christians I am aware of the end time prophecies which incidentally includes practically everything that this world already is, or is becoming. If you know it, you know what I mean, else no need to bring it up here.Funny chance or prophecy playing out? I don't know, but it's interesting and rather dark times we live in.

Well the thread is about Russophobia or Russophilia, so this is the last post from me about the USA in the thread!