Again, 'Murrica. How Many More

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Here you go.  Violent crime is down by about 50% (murder is down 54%, general violent crime down 51%) over the last 20 years, a very steep decline. In that same 20 years, mass shootings have increased more than 400%.  These are FBI statistics, I'm not just pulling numbers out of my ass.

The big question is....why?

Here is one theory.

Why America is prone to mass shooting

Meanwhile, a just-released study finds that although the United States has just about 5 percent of the world's population, the country has 31 percent of the world's mass shooters. The reasons for these numbers are complex, researchers say, but the data suggest that the availability of guns, and perhaps the American obsession with fame, may be to blame.

The United States has more private gun ownership and more desire for fame than any other country in the world, said Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama and author of the new research, presented Sunday (Aug. 23) at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 

I'm sure it is a deep, complex issue with many causes.  This seems plausible for some of the cause, at least.

America has a lot of violence because people have too much freedom.  Rigid totalitarian countries have lower crime rates because people don't have the freedom to be overtly violent.  If you want to reduce such violence in America impose a rigid police state and eliminate personal freedoms.  On top of that half of the population is simply bat shit crazy.