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This makes me think of another aspect of the whole thing. Our culture, not just this so called 'gun culture' (which is really just the crime, and dramatization thereof - not representative of law abiding gun owners) is supposedly 'exported' everywhere.

I don't really see that we are really shoving our culture down everyone's throats, but more like they see what we have, and they want it. Be it music, movies, games, etc etc... people all over the world suck it up.

Combined with youth wanting to be 'cool' and such, life imitates art, and they try to be punks and thugs like our media glorifies.

So I don't really think it's caused by the US, but by people trying to imitate us.