(May 20, 2018 at 5:32 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Australia - Colonised by convicts. Access to weapons not allowed.
America - Colonised by the brave and the free. Freedom to be protected at all cost.
Both make sense. 2 completely different beginnings. 2 Radically different endings. Both great democracies.
It makes sense, actually. Those cast away by society decided to make a better society for themselves than those who freely left society of their own accord. Those who left freely were perhaps overcome more by a want of power by their own hands than earning freedom properly.