A nation of forgiveness?
You do know about the deep religious puritanical roots here right? Yes we gave birth to the bill of rights, one of the best documents in history, but we also spawned the prohibition (where the gov went as far as to poison alcohol killing some 10,000 people), as well as the witch trials, no knock military style raids over someone smoking a cigarette made from the wrong leaf, and a media that will make you think letting the TSA molest your kid is a good idea because “terrorists” (especially ones who worship a different sky creature than most Americans) even though our own government kills more innocent people per year just in wrongful police shootings alone, than people killed by the terries.
We have never been a nation of forgiveness, it’s not in our DNA, just like we didn’t forgive England back in the day when we won our independence, we are a nation of conquering, the “righteous” person is the one who can put the most force on the other.