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I don't know whether you are overly optimistic or generous.

@Mel Hopkins once again you're on it.

Thank you @Mel HopkinsI did not know this! I was very skeptical and appreciate your comment very much. Yes. For so long, America is known as the superpower.

Sista @Mel Hopkins, I love that quote. It applies in both the real and virtual world.😁😎

I was thinking of visionaries, that look at world yet see something everyone else misses. If I am on a deserted island, I'd rather having George Washington Carver than the entire population of New York City. There is always quality in quantity.

@Mel Hopkins we shall see if you can break through a wall, by talking to it.

Well thank your for including AALBC as one of your platforms @Mel Hopkins. Let us know in #readingblack how you test goes.

Hieroglyphs was a formal writing system created by the ancient Egyptians (northeastern Africans) over 4,000 years ago. It is the basis for every other writing system (Greek, Arabic, Latin, etc.). 😎

The United States of America (USA) has always been hypocritical from a geopolitical perspective when it comes to gun laws, human rights, extremism, terrorism and everything else. But, the USA is the #1 super power in the world which equates to "do as I say and don't worry about what I do". For all of its warts, there's a reason why people from all over the world still want to come to the USA. The state doesn't matter. Folks just want to get here. The gun industry is worth $63 billion. That's a whole lot of money. There are about 20 thousand people killed in gun-related homicides annually. That is about 0.005970% deaths out of a population of 335 million people. From a human perspective, those deaths are preventable. Very few people want to deal with a family member or friend getting shot and killed. From a money perspective, it's apparently an acceptable amount of loss in the course of doing business. Otherwise, the gun lobby wouldn't be so adamant in protecting it. Japan averages less than 10 homicides per year in a country of 126 million people. There are less than 350 thousand guns in that country. America has to decide why it's necessary to have 393 million guns floating around. 😎

@Chevdove The State Department has a rating for other countries but they don’t rate the U.S. So one day I did a search to find out how other countries rank they U.S. and found The U.S. ranked as one top 15 dangerous countries in the world. In fact, there are a bunch of youtube channels hosted by expats. Most people who can afford to leave the U.S. have left. But yes this is how highly developed countries and even emerging markets see the U.S. - They see our hypocrisy and call it out.