Lots of movies made outside the US seem to have similar themes (But I guess I haven't watched that many; a recent one is The Raid).
Some of us can tell the difference between fact and fiction, between make-believe and reality.
I am reminded of the end of this scene from the movie Team America: World Police where the Parisians have mouths agape:
I mean, the majority of people everywhere are able to do this just fine, that's my point. US movie culture isn't particularly different than elsewhere.
Here's a popular French movie that celebrates impunity. A cop steals cocaine from some drug dealers and then makes war on them when they kidnap his son:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_VfNacaeo
Maybe I got lucky and found the only one.
I think this is a commonly held belief, and that it is also false.
Why does Japan have a swat team? Why is the US sending antitank weapons to Ukraine?
Yeah, except there was a police officer right outside the building already:
> The suspect was immediately engaged outside the building as he approached the school by a Uvalde Independent School District police officer, who was shot by the suspect, the sources said.
* https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-ac...
And this isn't the first time on-site individuals have been useless:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s...
Even if officers respond with-in a minute, you still have multiple deaths and many injuries:
> Police at the scene engaged him within a minute of the first shots being fired, firing 18 rounds and hitting the gunman several times.[5]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootin...
I maintain the US has a bruce willis problem. An ethos that a good guy with a gun is the solution to all problems. It may even be, the issue is when someone thinks they're the good guy with a gun, and they're not. They think they're bruce willis, and they're not. They think they're righting wrongs, and they're not. Their narrative is out of sync with mine.
This is a cultural issue apart from firearms. I may not be sober enough to make this statement, so salt to taste - but firearms aren't the root cause, they're the lubricant in a wider issue where you're all bruce willis in your own story. This combination of firearms and individualism is what separates you from examples such as Switzerland, Czechia, etc. The guns are only the medium through which a deeper problem is expressed.