I am not downvoting you. Your comment illustrates the mindset difference here, and honestly before I left the US I wasn't so different. But as noted in the arti

I am not downvoting you. Your comment illustrates the mindset difference here, and honestly before I left the US I wasn't so different. But as noted in the article, streets used to be for play, chatting, etc. It would be more convenient to go deer hunting on playgrounds if shooting kids on accident had no consequences, too.