Your neighbor and you are using canadian logic, ie to come from a place of no freedom to a place of some freedom is paradise.
We are a lot less free today than we were 50 or 100 years ago.
The Founders are rolling in their graves
Please note: The population of the entire 13 Colonies in 1775 was approximately 2,500,000.
If you have to ask what that figure means with reference to the many laws of today you need to further your education.
BTW...I just loved your whining about the "Blacks and American Indians".
I was so taken by it my family and I are on the way to the cemetery to urinate on our kinsmen's graves.