Yeah, the enveloping problem which I think could be described quite succinctly as "American culture is fucked up" has actually motivated an American-born friend of mine (living in Canada, and on track to citizenship, but doesn't have it quite yet) to say that he'd trust the populations of most developed countries to be able to live with American-style gun control laws and still not kill each other anywhere near as much as Americans do (though he had a much better way of putting it, that I forget right now).

(It's probably also worth noting that in the case of American culture "fucked up" doesn't mean it's all bad; there are a lot of really amazing things about American culture too, and it strikes me as a genuinely tricky problem how to essentially remove the really terrible bits without wrecking the really amazing bits.)