That’s an interesting question. People like to blame guns, but
The United States’ homicide rate of 3.8 is clearly higher than that of eg France (1.0), Germany (0.8), Australia (1.1), or Canada (1.4). However, as per the FBI, only 11,208 of our 16,121 murders were committed with firearms, eg 69%. By my calculations, that means our nonfirearm murder rate is 1.2. In other words, our non-firearm homicide rate alone is higher than France, Germany, and Australia’s total homicide rate.
That’s from here, which is an interesting but long discussion of the topic:
A massive percentage of yous have been huffing leaded petrol fumes almost directly from exhausts for decades and yous are still wondering why you’re a bunch of murderous warmongering cunts? 😂
What do you mean yous? That was global lead contamination baby! Hence the last ditch far right swings internationally. I also attribute it to brain damage from COVID. And microplastics. And the Teflon in all our blood. I just hope there was enough education along the way to diffuse some of those violent tendencies with democratic principles.
But yes, in general, I agree. We are a bunch of pollutant filled war mongers on our worst days.
That’s an interesting question. People like to blame guns, but
That’s from here, which is an interesting but long discussion of the topic:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/guns-and-states-2-son-of-a-gun/
Edit: I’m not saying guns aren’t part of the explanation, but they don’t appear to account for the majority of the difference.
Ah, SSC. I was going to make a joke about how it’ll get blamed on
black peopleHuman Biodiversity, but Scott actually doesA massive percentage of yous have been huffing leaded petrol fumes almost directly from exhausts for decades and yous are still wondering why you’re a bunch of murderous warmongering cunts? 😂
What do you mean yous? That was global lead contamination baby! Hence the last ditch far right swings internationally. I also attribute it to brain damage from COVID. And microplastics. And the Teflon in all our blood. I just hope there was enough education along the way to diffuse some of those violent tendencies with democratic principles.
But yes, in general, I agree. We are a bunch of pollutant filled war mongers on our worst days.
I think it mostly has to do with all the brain damaging chemicals in our water, soil, and air.