It's not an obsession or fascination, it's just that we don't get many mass shootings here, last one was in the 90s lol
We don't get many mass shootings either considering our population size and the fact there's estimated to be over a half billion guns floating around America. 395 million registered guns in America and who knows how many hundreds of thousands unregistered. Now take the amount of shootings vs. the amount of guns and gun owners. Math tells me there should be way more if we were as blood thirsty and insane as the media makes us out to be.
I lived there on and off I have seen a bit, you tell me honestly some positives about USA.
I have my own list
Burgers
Cheap cigs, weed, booze, food
Diners
and the biggest and best thing about America, is convenience of literally everything. Until you live outside of the USA, you wouldn't know how good it is.
I lived in Germany for 3 years and Israel for 6 months, had deployments to Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, and traveled all over Europe. Germany was great and I would live there again if given the chance, but having experienced multiple cultures around the world I still like living in America the best.
The thing I've noticed in most of my travels is that Western countries are all generally the same, including America. Can you honestly see much of a difference between America and Australia after living here, outside of us having more convenience? You lived in Detroit, which is probably the worst example of our large country, so I'm not sure the type of answers I'll get, but I doubt there's really much of a difference when it really comes down to it.
Germany, England, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Canada, and America all seemed exactly the fucking same to me. I've been to major cities and small towns in all those countries and there really isn't much of a difference outside of America has more convenience for things like fast food.
I would live in any of those countries and be comfortable in them, but people I know from a lot of those countries seem to think if they came here to America they would have to fear getting shot just walking down the street and I shake my head reading some of the shit they say. Did you feel like that when you lived here?
Gun violence and the "racial divide" the media is spewing is the least of my worries. My main worries for America is our health care system and education reform.