Wal-Mart Sells Machine Guns!

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114. Oh boy! I'm having a Rashomon moment

We were once a British Colony, but that is it.

Really? You might want to check out the Bill of Rights, the entire legal system, the lingua franca, government administration, agricultural revolution, industrial revolution.
I grew up in a microcosm of British society. Never saw any spotted dick, went to school with Anglicans, Catholics, Jews, atheists, Chines, Indians, Pakistanis, Africans, West Indians, Poles, Dutch, Germans, Irish.


The American diversity is nothing like Canada. America dilutes immigrant cultures into the "melting pot", while Canada embraces diversity. Few cultures have kept any real sense of identity in the US. They have all been absorbed into the Anglo-American melting pot. Find an Italian-American who speaks Italian. Go to Toronto and find one who doesn't.

Company towns. I am in one right now. This country is still full of them. Been to Detroit recently? Ever been to mining country? Wanna see company towns? Visit West Virginia. Slavery, yes, the US has that in common with Jamaica. Not much slavery in Europe since the Romans.

I think the reason for more gun violence in Mexico and Jamaica has much more to do with drug and weapons trafficking with the US and the ensuing corruption.