> a European point of view

Well, the slogan «‘No Way To Prevent This’, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens» is from The Onion («America's Finest News Source»)...

>from a European point of view

99% of Europeans haven't been to America and only know what Hollywood movies tell them. The kind of person who thinks you can visit New York City and the Grand Canyon in the same day and have to worry about mass shooters everywhere all the time.

Most Europeans know the US better, and have a better grasp of its politics and even which states is which, than the majority of Americans who can't even name their own Vice President.

And this is not some pop culture instilled notion, but my empirical observations on the ground. Heck, I've talked with too many people who didn't even know the major cities in their own state, 100 miles away from their town, or major parts of its own history, and might as well never even left their county...

Your observations? From what US states? and what European states?

that sounds like a less-educated-american point of view of how common citizens of Europe look like, rather than reality...

yes, the argument is also strange given that Hollywood tends to not show many of the bad sides of the US, and if so presents them as exceptions. So if your opinion is based on Hollywood the US looks pretty okay...