Why do people think the US actually guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

If this were true, we wouldn't see gay marriage even being a question. The death penalty wouldn't be legal. Pot would be. Women wouldn't have a legal right to kill their children. People wouldn't have a legal right to murder each other just because they felt threatened by a black kid armed with a bag of Skittles. We wouldn't see town police departments assaulting journalists with military grade weapons, or even owning military weapons at all. The 13th Amendment wouldn't be cool with slavery so long as the government's the one doing it. Prison wouldn't be a profitable industry. People would be allowed to believe and worship as they wish without the threat of being besieged in a house by the ATF and FBI. We would have never seen events like Kent State. This country would be a radically different place overall if these were are real core values.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

If this were true, we wouldn't see gay marriage even being a question. The death penalty wouldn't be legal. Pot would be. Women wouldn't have a legal right to kill their children. People wouldn't have a legal right to murder each other just because they felt threatened by a black kid armed with a bag of Skittles. We wouldn't see town police departments assaulting journalists with military grade weapons, or even owning military weapons at all. The 13th Amendment wouldn't be cool with slavery so long as the government's the one doing it. Prison wouldn't be a profitable industry. People would be allowed to believe and worship as they wish without the threat of being besieged in a house by the ATF and FBI. We would have never seen events like Kent State. This country would be a radically different place overall if these were are real core values.

Lesson for ya, most people cannot see the forest for the trees. They are rule-bound, word-bound, and concept-stupid. Humans are as dumb as dog shit generally, and Americans are some of the very worst. The world laughs at the US, when we aren't making them cry that is.