[Seizethecarp]

Having a population with no guns allows Singapore to continue to be a crony capitalist dictatorship, IIRC.

[X-spurt]

Having the pleasure to have visited Singapore several times, if its run, as you say by crony capitalist dictatorship, the dictators are doing lot of things right. As far as I know, they have free and honest elections.

Asking a S-Pore friend the difference between USA freedom and Singapore freedom, his response was “theirs was freedom from crime”. Aside from owning a gun or chewing gum, its hard to argue he's wrong.

As pretty, safe, friendly and clean as Singapore is, I'll still take the USA any day, or at least Texas.