@GamesAndRoses Nah, America will fall the same way Rome & England fell: Internal strife, poverty & class warfare (they used the same economic system we use now on a near-global scale: Fiat), ineffective leadership, and enemies from outside attacking the borders.

America will survive, just as Rome & England did (although Rome re-invented themselves dramatically), but as the primo-superpower? Nah. I wouldn't bet on China, India, or a conglomerate of the old Ottoman Empire/Persia taking its' place, either (too many of the same issues). Probably some country we'd never suspect...like Mongolia.

@HONDA_XR Nah, just the loud, obnoxious ones.

@jon2435 I propose we also burn violent paintings. Like "The Flaying of Marsyas", for starters.

@green_scorpion @psx_warrior You know, I NEVER understood this: Why do Christians (which I am, by the by) blame Satan for everything? Satan & Lucifer aren't the same dude.

Lucifer rebelled against God & was cast out of Heaven (and wound-up on Earth), and generally goes around being a giant dickwad to humans out of jealousy towards us (as humans are favored by God more than the Angels).

Satan is a fallen angel (which ONLY means that he's not in Heaven - NOT that he's corrupt - any angel stationed on Earth, for example, is a "Fallen Angel") who _takes orders from God_ to test the resolve and beliefs of Gods' followers (see: Book of Job). Sure, he opposes God from time to time, what that's what he was ORDERED to do.

@jdc6305 @DrHyde There's Paranoid Schizophrenia (which several of my relatives have), and then there's "Antisocial personality disorder" (psychopathy, for the ill-informed) with violent tendencies.

@DrHyde To be fair, some of those institutions were shut down due to them making old Bethlem look normal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

You know, where the word bedlam pretty much came from.

Otherwise, they HAD to be shut-down. Lack of funding, safety, health, etc. They can't all be pristine and safe like Arkham Asylum.

@TheArcade Actually, the way I see it is that his mental issues should have been professionally addressed with continual care/treatment. It doesn't appear that occurred - she kept their family issues quiet.

Guns are perfectly safe so long as they are USED and STORED safely. Of course, there are plenty of guns the public really shouldn't possess...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/28/16221808-rocket-launchers-surface-during-los-angeles-guns-buyback?lite

@buccomatic @GamingAnubis Yeah! There's Americans, like us...and Stupid Americans, like them!

...or something like that...?

@jaifrecap I wonder if I'm the only one who sees the sarcasm in that post?

Sigh...internet...the bane of sarcastic expression...

@Epictacosam @hector530 @beast70 @NeoIostars Including sales tax or no? I live in Oregon so I have no idea, really.