From Head to Tale

I was wondering if what happened in Las Vegas could be called domestic violence? It's sort of feels as if the US should own this tragedy. Domestic violence usually refers to a family member committing a violent act against other family members. In this case the US is the family and what has happened is affecting everyone else that is a member of the American family. Can we even think of a country as a family, does a nation bear any resemblance to a family? A family has many features that are shared and help to define it. The members are usually but not always related and mostly have a way of relating to each other that identifies them as part of a similar group. They mostly share a language,and often share cultural characteristics and will define themselves as a family to others. Families also have differences, different ways of living their lives, different places they live, different allegiances and ways of thinking about the world. But the things that connect them as a family a...