It is not insane if you understand how the U.S. developed. America was founded by religious groups that couldn’t integrate in Europe. Then western expansion re

It is not insane if you understand how the U.S. developed. America was founded by religious groups that couldn’t integrate in Europe. Then western expansion required rugged living and violent displacement of natives, and lawless expanses of frontier. So we have had puritanical and deeply conservative cultures that are heavily armed for hundreds of years.