While Some Argue We Aren't "The World's Policeman," The World Considers Policing Us

"What if we no longer thought of this as just a problem for America and, instead, viewed it as an international humanitarian crisis — a quasi-civil war, if you like, that calls for outside intervention?

"As citizens of the world, perhaps we should demand an end to the unimaginable suffering of victims and their families — the maiming and killing of children — just as America does in every new civil conflict around the globe."

—Henry Porter, "American Gun Use Is Out of Control," The Observer, September 21, 2013