Originally Posted by Lucky Pierre007

Most of those people in Rio had at some point been robbed at gun point. How many people have you met in any American city that have been robbed at gun point? Very few. The reality is that while the USA certainly has its faults, the violence in its major cities has certainly been falsely represented. The prevailing anti-American sentiment throughout the world (while understandable) leads to many half truths that are often perceived as fact.