(quote)
"Funny to hear of culturally superior Americans behaving like them pesky Ayrabs in Afghanistan and Palestine."

Oh here we go again. Seeing as how most multigeneration
ancestral Americans are from Europe it's a sign of evolution that "more" semi-ignorant jerks express themselves with firearms as their "far less policed" forebears.
Ofcourse Euros were given full license to wield weapons in "the colonies-to-be" for centuries and some liked that power over life and death so much they stayed.
Dressing up the act of "dueling" doth not make the act anymore "cultured".
BTW: Aren't the "French" the traditionally held as the ones whom have always considered themselves culturally superior? ;-)
The natives in French Indochine might have an opinion on that.