Does the United States have the privilege of urban violence?

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In the United States, violence is related to the construction of the American nation and its culture. However, the violence was a tool in the past and, apart from perhaps for the racial riots, many measures have been frequently adopted to end it. Today, urban violence, constantly increasing, expresses despair, alienation and takes the final form of self destruction that seems to defy any possibility of control. The drug traffic, free movement of weapons is increasing in the territories actually abandoned by the US and the rest of the society. Many people live in these enclaves, marked and characterized by the existence within the population of a strong sense of community, and where urban democracy is in free fall. The violence is the last mode of expression. With the processes that led to riots in Europe, is the current socio-economic context of the European countries quite different?

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[...] He was followed by a psychotherapist for depression, even if he had stopped going to meetings since September 2008. As in previous similar killings, the shooting of Winnenden aroused passionate reactions in the media and relaunched two debates: one mainly on the control of firearms, but also the possible bad influence of violent video games on adolescents. However, internationally, the killings went unnoticed. The media is didn't talk about this event. Is the expression of the violence really different in the U.S. [...]

[...] Indeed, the international media have talked about the event, they only minimize except for the American media that have rushed to put France in a state of lawlessness. School shooting in Finland The shooting occurred in Kauhajoki high school in Kauhajoki in Finland on 23 September 2008. A young man entered the establishment, his face covered by a ski mask, dressed in black and carrying a large bag. He then started to shoot at anything that moved. The shooter was Matti Juhani Saari, a student in high school in the restoration, aged 22. [...]

[...] Does the United States have the privilege of urban violence? Introduction In the United States, violence is related to the construction of the American nation and its culture. However, the violence was a tool in the past and, apart from perhaps for the racial riots, many measures have been frequently adopted to end it. Today, urban violence, constantly increasing, expresses despair, alienation and takes the final form of a self destruction that seems to defy any possibility of control. The drug traffic, free movement of weapons is increasing in the territories actually abandoned by the U.S. [...]

[...] We will try to understand why the world sees the United States as one of the most violent of the world while violence also exists in Europe? The internal violence in the United States since the early 90s The United States has experienced since the early 90s a series of facts with a rare violence that have changed the course of life within the country but also worldwide. The riots in Los Angeles The 1992 riots in Los Angeles began on 29 April 1992 in Los Angeles after a jury composed of whites, including an Asian and a Latino had acquitted the four police officers accused of beating black driver, Glen King aka Rodney King. [...]

[...] Once a violent or tragic event takes place in the USA, the world is overexposed, and medias ensure that America is exceptional. Even if these events are of extreme violence, like the Watts riots or the Columbine massacre, the reality is that the United States is far from being the most dangerous country on earth. The Europeans events are internationally much less publicized, because Europe remains an association of countries, not a country. [...]