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avebury

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8. You beat me to it.

Reply to RandiFan1290 (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:57 AM

Jan 2014

Norway does not even have life without parole and somehow they don't seem to have the crime problems that exist in the US. It is a difference in culture. The US is becoming more of a police state, private prisons is a growth industry and we don't care about people. Countries like Norway look at everyone being on an equal footing and they have better systems of education, health care, etc. It is wonderful how a country can develop when they don't have an obsessive gun culture and don't allow the needs and desires of the few out weigh the needs and desires of the many.

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