""So don't go around condemning all Americans as being "uncivilized."""

An where exactly, Don F, did I do that.

"All Americans" don't actually make the laws!

They elect a government, and their country is just as civilsed, or not, as that government makes it.

I am condemning the American government, as are many Americans, for either permitting, or encouraging these atrocities to continue at the whim of a tiny minority with enormously disproportionate political clout.

Don T.