Serial killers terrify Americans. A serial killer who has killed only two victims puts a whole city into a panic. Oddly, there are other serial killers whom Americans have no fear of at all. They may have bragged they have killed hundreds or even thousands of people, mostly women and children. Usually they are less forthcoming about how they tortured and sexually abused their victims. The difference is, they do their hunting outside the USA. When they come back from their safaris, Americans welcome them into their homes and even hold parades to honour them. They let these serial killers babysit their kids. How could this be?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)
- Americans have swallowed military propaganda whole. They consider killing children who were no threat to the USA a noble deed if an American soldier does it.
- America is an extremely racist and religiously bigoted society. The children killed had brown skins. They were Muslim. Americans care less about what happens to them than they do cockroaches.
- The NRA (National Rifle Association) has convinced Americans to use guns to relieve frustration by shooting something, usually an animal or inanimate object, but Americans have successfully lied to themselves that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan will be a threat to America when they grow up because of what America has done to them as children, so they too are suitable targets.
- Americans trust that soldiers will confine their murders to non-citizens, which they can do legally (at least according to American law though not international law).