>>>>The fact of the matter remains, and that is that the American society is a whole lot more violent and trigger happy than the swiss. The bigger question is how many innocent victims are acceptable before the US finally takes some action to this madness? Currently is about 30.000 a year. So how many are acceptable: 50.000, 100.000, 1.000.000
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>>>Many Americans consider those deaths the price of freedom.
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>>In my view, that is exactly what is wrong and totally nuts.
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>>Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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>Popularized by Janis, but trite, and wrong, as you're no doubt aware.
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>>Freedom and "Can do whatever you want" are two different things.
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>Not as different as you'd think. How about, freedom is you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't impair others' freedom (?)

Minor point of clarification -- written by Kris Kristofferson at a time when he and Janis Joplin were lovers.