3 October

Yep, this is the real issue. And why is the US so much more violent? My favourite theory: because it hates regulation. Because it has no real tradition of collective focus, so that each person then becomes their own island, with their own guns, to look out for themselves. I think it relates back to the Puritan ethos that founded the US, which was a group of people who were more or less kicked out of Europe for their strong beliefs, and who were determined in their new land to never let 'government' have too much power over them again.