Why do some Americans think that Europe is not free?

OK, Britain and Ireland have draconian gun laws basically abolishing the right to own a handgun, but those are only two countries: Finland has relaxed gun laws, so does Norway, Switzerland has an enormous rate of gun ownership, the French are allowed to own handguns (they just have to get permits) as do nearly all the other countries. Freedom of speech? Yes, I know that holocaust denial is a crime in a few nations, e.g., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Netherlands, but not the majority ----no one in Europe is put in prison for criticizing the government; France has speech codes, but Ireland doesn't. Low per-capita income? No, that's a stupid thing to say, the nations of Western Europe have very high per-capita incomes and enjoy a high standard of living. Vacation? Most of them get five weeks while we only get two. Freedom of religion? Yes. Freedom of the press? Yes. Right to embly? Yes. Free market? In every single EU country. Not one is socialist as socialism would involve complete nationalization and all of those countries have a thriving private sector. We're not talking about Cuba or North Korea here. Taxes? Yes, in most of those countries they are higher, but there's a trade off: you want to go to university, well how many Europeans do you know who are 100K in debt for undergraduate alone? How much of their tax money do they waste policing nations that hate them? How much did they waste invading a country for discredited reasons (except for the few who joined the Coalition, this excludes several including France, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden and Germany)....seriously how stupid can you be not to just go and get your almanac and look up the stats? Europe is free and it's not suffering. Do only ignorant rednecks who don't travel and can't find their own country on a map think this way? I've lived there, and I don't recall any recent m exodus of Europeans for America in search of freedom. It's not the 19th century any longer.