As a reasonably sane Canadian I cannot understand the United States of America.
Here is a country that spends more on its military than the next 20 or 25 countries combined, has the largest percentage of its population in jail, is scared shitless by terrorists and drugs, has a gun homicide rate that is many times the average of any other first world country, is almost puritan in its treatment of nudity but idolizes violence, has over half the population believing in Creationism, the Second Coming, and the literal truth of the bible, while dropping like a rock in education and scientific research.
On top of that they have a regular round of public massacres that nobody ever does anything about!
Gun control ya say?
Listen to this;
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the largest and oldest of America’s gun-control groups, is a fraction of its peak size. The center and an affiliated political arm had revenue of US$ 5.9-million in 2010, the most recent year for which information is publicly available – down 27% in three years.
In the same year, the powerful pro-gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA), and its various components took in US $253-million from individuals, gun makers and sellers and other supporters.
On top of all this bullshit, the U.S. is the only first world country that doesn’t have some form of universal health care, and when they try to introduce it a good percentage of the population votes it down!
There is something seriously wrong in the land of the not-so-free, and I think it might be mass insanity!
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