LOL. No. Did you miss the several comments about domestic abuse being an issue and should be stopped?
Population SIZE isn’t the only measure of a society. Who that population is, where they are, how they are distributed can have crazy different out comes in stats.
It isn’t a “special snowflake”, but it is different in many ways than any other place on earth. Obviously the stats show the US has it worse off than some places, but what, exactly are the reasons for that?
Hell, various areas of the US look totally different in their cultural make up and attitudes than other places in the same country. Let’s not forget that for at least the first half of the nations existence, people generally considered themselves members of their state before a member of their country.
If this was about Iraq or Japan, or South Africa or several other places, people wondering aloud why “They can’t be more like ‘us’?” would be seen as pretty culturally insensitive.
It isn’t an excuse, but it is a factor. Our society and history is different than anywhere else. One big difference is our cities and how spread out we are. When an area gets a little old, the well to do move, and the poor inhabit the crumbling infrastructure. Conversely, I noted most Euro cities are not only denser overall, but the mix of economic ranges are more varied. Which means public infrastructure is kept up because the well to do use it too.
Below you say all we need is a better policy (what ever that means), but maybe consider for a minute the US has different issues and problems than in other parts of the “high income” world. I think we are a little more “3rd world” in some respects once you peel off the veneer.
If poverty is one of the main factors of violent crime, the fact that we have more pockets of just poor people than elsewhere is a contributing factor for the crime stats. It is why you can look at a city district map and see certain areas awash in blood, and 15 min away there is nearly no homicides… And I think a big factor is a ratio of poor to middle and upper class is a factor. Certain areas have been devastated and suppressed economically, there is no where for them to go. When there is no hope for a better life, people are more willing to do what ever they can to get ahead.
Policy in what way? How is Europe’s policy on spousal abuse different than in the US, since that is the issue here.
Though I would agree there are some polices that the US does need to change. Drug laws are a huge policy change that I think would reduce violent crime. At the same time I am not naive enough to think policy changes are the only thing stopping us from mirroring other “high income countries”.
TL;DR - It isn’t American Exceptionalism that makes us better, or our sins excusable, but it is what makes us DIFFERENT.
