SlowpokeBlog

Merely living in America these days seems unsafe. Our health insurance crisis is spiralling out of control, worker safety protections are being eroded, thousands of chemicals used in products have never been tested, people drive around in giant killer missiles blabbing on cell phones, the government wants to detain people as it pleases, there's hardly an economic safety net, and now your neighbor has more leeway than ever to shoot you if you're on his property. "Good people make good decisions. That’s why they’re good people," says Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. Life is just that simple! There are good people and bad people, and the good people never overreact or accidentally shoot someone.

Contrast this to England, where people walk for fun, and public footpaths wind for miles through the countryside. In the Cotswolds, you can wander through pastures full of sheep, stop in a local pub for a pint, and keep going through farmland until you hit the next township. Now that's freedom.