Guillaume Perrault: "Violence, a constant in public life in the United States?"

Among the paradoxes of American culture, not the least is the coexistence of a high degree of violence and, no doubt to contain it, of an extreme deference towards the common rules of the national contract: the Constitution of 1787, its 27 amendments (in particular the first 10, ratified in 1791, which form the Bill of Rights), the institutions it created, the law and the rule of law in general.

Firearms and the defense of individual liberty on the one hand, constitutional patriotism and punctilious legalism on the other.

We drive carefully in the United States.

Because in the event of an accident and a dispute between two motorists, everyone knows the possibility that the stranger in front of you will take out an assault rifle to settle the dispute, or at least take you to conciliation.

The possibility of violence is there, present in the background.

The citizens have integrated it.

As curious as it may seem in the face of the grabbing of media space by the radicals of the

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