>Is Japan not a free country? Are the European nations not free? Australia? I bet there are a heck of a lot of countries where you would have some serious legal issues if you had a gun and shot someone, whatever the reason.
on a freedom scale of 1 - 10, Europe and Japan is 7.0, USA is 8.0. ;)
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