This graphic from the Economist suggests to me that the USA is simply a violent society. There are more murders by means other that a gun than in most other societies by all mechanisms.
The USA is the only society with high gun ownership and a high homicide rate. Again, evidence of the third factor at work.
Gun control is not going to happen in the USA because of the poor incentives for law-abiding individuals to retreat from high levels of legal private gun ownership when criminals will keep their guns. Harry Clarke
pointed out that:
The political popularity of guns is strengthened by Prisoner’s Dilemma disincentives for individuals to retreat from high levels of gun ownership.
Accepting a gun buyback would be unattractive to citizens who would recognize high levels of overall gun ownership in the community and, hence, their own personal increased vulnerability if those with criminal intent acted rationally and kept their weapons.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey showed the risk of serious injury from a criminal attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun.
- The key to the success of Australian and New Zealand gun laws was low levels of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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