> thanks to the USA's insane gun laws.

The US has the best gun laws in the world, though they could lessen some of the regulation.

Yeah there are still too many kids in schools

Agreed, still too much money forced to provide substandard public ed. let parents keep the $$ and use them for better ed.

And murder is already illegal fwiw

Also it's people that shoot people not guns, so we should regulate people not guns

Also why do we need to fund education at all, there is such a huge workers shortage that seems madness to give up on so much labour

a lot of these 'baddies' are bad due to war on drugs policies perpetrated by the american government against all of latin america because imperialism

the huge amount of funding of organized crime is a direct consequence of imperialistic war on drugs. "a matter of national health??" ahahahah, just think about the american health system for a minute.....

> As if this is any different in the US, where film and music have also lionized the "baddies" for well over a hundred years!

Agreed. IMHO, we all could benefit from some critical thinking when watching movies or TV series: that someone is the main character, doesn't automatically make them "the good guy", and they shouldn't be emulated even if you love binge-watching their antics.