MAYBE Mongolia... but it's know nothing about it.

Dry, very cold in the winter and you better be self-sufficient.

Well, a couple of asterisks to your list: - Many of the guns feeding violence in Mexico (and to a lesser extent Haiti and Bermuda) come from the U.S. -Puerto Rico, despite our president’s statement, is part of the U.S.

I'm well aware - It's just the part that there are countries worse than the US. Looking at comparable countries like the OECD countries it should be clear to anybody how bad the US situation is. Don't do the apples and oranges thing

Also if you look at crime over the last 5 decades, it’s not that America is inherently more violent, we were at the same level of most of Western Europe. Violent crime dropped everywhere but it dropped faster in most OECD as quality of life improved for even the poorest and weapons were restricted.

Europe doesn’t have the mass shootings and in particular not in schools. It is not about violence, but about shootings.

If you wanted to fault two events that make the US the outlier in regards to a persistently high murder rate in the US it would be the 1977 “Revolt in Cincinnati” that put the gun manufacturing lobby in charge of the NRA, and the GOP constant assault of social welfare programs starting in 1981.

All agreed, - I think that the right wing of the US judiciary including SCOTUS has a big part in that development.

Again it’s not that things in the US got worse, though there was an uptick in urban violence from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, it’s that it failed to get better as fast as everyone else.

I think the crime bubble did a lot of damage to our national psyche because it created an era of paranoia about violent criminals, and created the narrative that being Dirty Harry levels of Tough On Crime was the best solution.

I also have the impression that the gun industry switched at some point from courting the rural market to courting the more lucrative urban market, and this meant a switch in marketing from “isn’t it nice to hunt with your father or son?” to a more “people want to kill you in your sleep!” approach.

It’s worse, they are feeding both sides of the paranoia divide, and making firearms less safe in the process. Look at the near disappearance of thumb safeties on pistols in the last 40 years. It part of this marketing that you always have to be ready to kill at a moment’s notice.

Hell the U.S. DOD had to get Sig Sauer to add a thumb safety to the p320 so they could buy it, and the damn thing will still go off in your holster. www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...

What’s the old saying? Poverty is the mother of crime? 🤔

Dude this is not the own you think it is when AMERICA IS IN THE TOP TEN. You donkey.

I mean, a lot of places are looking a LOT better than the USA now that Trump's back in office, so... maybe.

Agreed - 2 or 3 more years until retirement and I'll be back where I came from.

Unless it's become the 51st state 😉

lol As if I have the money to move! 😄

Countries where US imports weapons

Odd how most of them are in one hemisphere

I'm quite disappointed about some of those counties. Though I notice Puerto Rico gets its own mention. Oughtn't its statistics to be bundled in with the United States? It's like giving Washington DC its own entry because it isn't a state.

Bec of its territorial status

Bermuda? Good grief...

USA 10th out of about 200 countries - not a good place to visit