United States of America

I remember being a kid in the 90s in the USA. Life was good then. Yes, it may not not have been perfect, but I felt free and proud to live in the US. That has all changed for me now.
I look around and see that politics, wars and poverty are taking over. I don't feel safe in the US anymore. It's not because of other Americans. Our president and government is who I fear the most. Aren't they supposed to protect us? Beware of people who say they want to protect you. Our government doesn't want to protect us. They want to control us. Taking away weapons is a very big step in that. We were given the right to bare arms for a reason. The people who fought for our freedom, wanted us to have a way to defend ourselves in case our government was to try to take away our freedoms.
Now I am big hippie in many ways. I believe in loving and helping one another. I believe in peace, not war. But even a hippie needs to be able to defend themselves. So I am not about pointless wars where millions end up being slaughtered, but in the name of freedom and being able to live this life in peace, I do not believe we should have the right to bare arms taken away.

Now when it comes to our American people (government not included), I believe that most have a good heart. Most people aren't going to blow up a marathon or murder a bunch of kids in a school. Most of us are good. We don't think we are doing anything wrong, but look around....
Do you know how much food we produce in the US everyday? I'm not sure of the exact number, but its a lot. So why do we have hungry people? It's not for lack of.food! We have tons of food and hungry people... Empty houses and homeless people... We waste so much! And the sad part is.. the biggest reason behind the fact that big corporations don't donate more is that they don't want to be sued. It's sad that we can't even help the poor anymore without it backfiring in our faces.
I hate to see that our wonderful United States of America has come to this and even worse that I'm only 28 years old. I seriously was born in the wrong decade.
-R.I.P. USA