The US still does drop quite a lot of bombs though. Not that it's unique in that respect.

Or a white racist/fascist. Place your bets!

I dunno, can you name a 21st century equivalent of, say, Dostoyevsky (both politically/ideologically and intellectually)?

German police are describing him as "a confused individual" and "we can say with certainty that the attack did not have an Islamist motive.”

"I don't know where people get this fantasy that regular-ass folks without training can be "good guys with a gun."

It does happen the other way round as well. The pointedly titled film 'Indigenes' (about African, primarily Algerian, soldiers fighting for France in World War 2) was renamed 'Days of Glory' rather than the obvious and equally pointed translation: 'Natives'.

Except that the attention to America is far out of proportion to any other country in the world. We hear very little about the internal politics of, say, China.

Here's one: 'It Follows' is highly over-rated and not very good.

Less hilariously, UKIP favour re-legalising handguns. Their leader, Nigel Farage has described the laws introduced after the massacre in Dunblane as "knee jerk" and "ludicrous" (wouldn't want to over-react to the murder of 17 people: let's wait and see if it happens again, and again, and again… before we decide to do…

"But blaming everything solely on individuals is an equally simplistic approach"

The point is to do distinguish between the people and groups that make up those masses. If I was to say "All Americans are…" I'm sure you'd disagree, and you'd be right. To generalise about all/most Americans would be hugely simplistic. That applies to Muslims.

And people who live in Maine.

Uganda.

" it's mostly contained within those countries and the region."

"Are you denying that the governments in the Middle East use their religion as a justification for their actions?"

But the current state of the Middle East is not a separate issue to that destabilisation. ISIS are above all else the direct product of decades of war, impoverishment, and chaos in Iraq and more recently Syria.

Compare the frequency of mass shootings in the US with that in the UK (3 over the last 30 years).

Obviously gun violence has not declined enough.

The fact that they can't ALL be prevented is not a reason to not try to prevent them.

As I've said before, gun control doesn't make terrorism/massacres impossible, but it does make it more difficult. The attack in Paris obviously had a lot of organisation and planning behind it. In America, it requires no organisation at all and very little planning.