""Maybe the reason Americans are so intent on murdering each other is that a high percentage of them are either Irish, who, historically, seem prone to kill each other, or English, who, historically, seem prone to kill everyone""

Oh very helpful, considering that the whole nineteenth century in the USA was punctuated by the sound of private citizens filling each other with lead.

Come to think of it, maybe the quantity of lead in the air during that time has some bearing on the mental state of those who value guns above their children and their fellow man.

Don T.