Amanda --->Cold dead hands (or a lawyer), was Bowling for Columbine

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:

> It is about the high incidence of death in America caused by
> gunshot wounds and tries to understand why that is.(snip) canada
> has a high gun ownership level (logical in a country that big and 
> open) and so does Switzerland but they don't have anywhere near the 
> murder rate.

According to a delightful book called ALBION'S SEED by David Hackett 
Fischer, it is because of USAmerican cultural traits inherited from 
the early British settlers of various US regions. People from the 
England-Scotland Border area and Northern Ireland colonized much of 
the South, where their ethnic label is "Scots-Irish" or "hillbilly", 
AND people from that region colonized much of the West, bringing 
their culture with them. Fischer's account of the Borderer culture 
matches neatly with the account in unpublished essays by a native of 
that area (since moved to London to be a physicist) named Patrick 
Brady, who referred to his ancestral culture as "Reavers".