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Shopkeeper who displayed rainbow Pride flag at store shot dead
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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I assumed America before I even read it.
As an American, it's good our worst behaviors aren't replicable elsewhere.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/world/europe/lucy-letby-sentence-nurse-babies-killed.html
Sorry, but America doesn't have the stranglehold on "worst behavior". Not even close.
No, but shooting people for being happy is certainly one of the worst things we're known for.
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
But, like all American culture, I fear this is spreading its influence far and wide too.