[ch4s3]

We’ll we certainly have more homicide than any OECD nation. It’s probably relevant that the US is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and religiously pluralistic democracy born in violent revolution. That’s really unusual for a highly economically developed nation. In fact the US is super different from other OECD nations on almost all fronts.

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Certainly nothing to do with the ridiculous gun laws. No sir. It’s multiculturalism.

[ch4s3]

This isn’t a good faith reading of what I’m saying at all.

You could make really a really compelling argument that the US is better thought of as a more economically advanced Brazil rather than a more violent Germany. It seems clear to me that we have a constitutional amendment providing for a right to bare arms precisely because we emerged as a fractious collection of former colonies after armed struggle against England.