[localplume]

except prepping mostly isn't "I got mine, screw you" but "I need to protect myself and my family". even then, US society isn't even "I got mine, screw you". I don't understand where that even came from because its not even close to true. maybe europeans thinking they're somehow more collectivist even though I've found Americans to be far more friendly and collectivist than europeans.

[TheOtherHobbes]

The US is the only major Western country where its citizens buy guns to protect themselves from other citizens with guns.

I'm not really seeing how that counts as "friendly and collective", but I live in the EU so perhaps I just don't understand these things.

[kortilla]

Being prepared for a robbery has zero relationship with how you treat people in general.