Also here goes for a little history lesson; the idea that the English first colonized North America is actually wrong. The Spanish colonized South America after the continent was rediscovered, and the Dutch first colonized North-America. They created New-Amsterdam, what would later become New York City. However, the Dutch lost this colony to the English after the Second Dutch-English Seawar.

The Puritans were actually tolerated in England seeing as how they were protestants, they decided to overthrow the king because he did not fall in line with their way of life. While I agree with you that blaming people is not going to solve anything, there needs to be more dialoge about the subject IMO. The attitude towards Native Americans needs to be changed, and the problems in the reservations need to be solved. What is done is done, but not taking responsebility is not going to help anyone.

The immigrants who first came to the United States or ''pilgrims'' were actually puritans who had overthrown the king of England in a revolution. They chopped off his head and tried to do the same to his son. The head of the revolution, Olivier Cromwell, banned christmas, plays and fun. I'm not joking, puritans literally thought fun was sinful. Anyway, the Monarchy was restored again by James II and the puritans were allowed to leave England. You should be happy James II was so full of mercy after they killed his father and threw England into chaos.

epic samurai sword fights would be so much better than shootings.

People can downvote all they want but if they were Jewish they would not apreciate this.

Okay, clearly both of you completely missed the point I was trying to make. You don't have automaticly disregard this as something you can learn from, or use an example, just because Iceland is smaller in size. While Iceland does not have as my different cultural groups as the US, it does deal with problems and tensions regarding different groups in certain ways. And clearly they are doing something right. So, like I said before, instead of seeing this example as irrerelevant you could also do some more research about this country and see what you can learn. And one last thing; Downvote does not mean disagree, it means does not contribute to the conversation.
As an example issues in Iceland when their national bank collapsed; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_financial_crisis

http://nl.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fam It's british slang for close friend/family, but in my experience only gangster types use it.

Just because a country is smaller does not mean it does not have its own problems and complexities. Instead of automaticly assuming this example is invalid, maybe you could look at the way Iceland deals with crime and ask yourself what you can learn. How do they train their police and how do they deal with gun regulation? You can always learn from other people and their way of life. Divided we are weak, united we are strong.

Have you ever been there?

The man who did this is resposible for the Arabic Spring; an event that triggered multiple revolutions in 2010. After he did this a revolution in Tunisia broke out which blew over to Egypt (Twice), Libya and Yemen (twice). This also escalated to Syria, a country that is currently still at war.