I read an article with an interview of a belorussian construction worker. He claimed Belorussia was the most free nation in the world, and he believed it, he wasn't joking.

-What other country allows you to take a leak by the roadside, huh?


It's a little bit the same with (some) americans and their guns. Americans are the most gun owning people on the planet, so they rationalize with a patriotic filter and see this as something positive and special, its gotta be freedom, right, if I didn't have that gun the thugs would be on me instantly, but now with this gun they aren't. Better keep my fingers crossed to keep the vampires away, never been bitten with my fingers crossed.

In reality it really just is a lot of guns, and it doesn't reduce crime at all. A "freedom" who doesn't make people more free.