Oh please, the incidents in Norway and America are very rare occurrences compared to the daily violence in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Maybe Norway, but are you kidding about America? There are tons of shootings in America all the time. Not all are big mass mutli killings. That's how you know there's a problem, merely 4 people dying probably wouldn't even make the news.

There was recently that one where some white supremicist stormed a sikh temple and shot people. That's just the most recent one in my memory, wasn't that a few weeks ago.

Hyperbole doesn't help anyone. Sure, America is a lot more violent than Western Europe, but both America and Western Europe are so much less violent than a veritable warzone like Afghanistan that even trying to claim otherwise doesn't achieve anything productive.

That's because Afghanistan was a warzone and still is; but to make snide aspersions as to where these nations are 'stuck' based off of acts of wanton violence is wrong and belies a blind hypocrisy.