User blog comment:Stareh/'MURICA!/@comment-1333071-20130417231748

I also really like America. I'm proud to celebrate my country and educate people about it. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are two of my favorite holidays.

Now, that being said, with the recent gun violence and NOTHING BEING DONE ABOUT IT, I no longer feel safe to live here. Why, you ask? Forest, you live in a small town in the middle of nowhere! Nothing will happen to you.

That's true, yes, but I hate sitting there wondering if something will happen to somebody else. I also have to calm myself down before entering any school building, because I have no idea what will happen.

Paranoid? Not really. There are those other "crazy" people trying to make our country safer by increasing background checks, which I completely agree with. Why should anyone with a messed-up head be given access to a gun? Why would anyone without any formal training want a gun?

You say this as if guns are the sole reason we exist. It's not. We exist because we as Americans appreciate free speech and an uncorrupted government.

"Yes, we allow people to have guns. Yes, we have one of the (the?) highest crime/murder rate in the world. But that does not make this country a bad place."

I think that's wrong, actually, and if we have leaders who don't want to do anything, I'm going to get the hell out before a bigger issue arises. Just the thought freaks me out.

Forest out.