The USA is the only country premised on the notion that people should look after themselves.
Countries like the UK, Japan, Saudi, and Canada have much lower homicide rates. The people in those nations are subjects and the system is built on the notion that the state should make the important decisions for them.
Our freedom has been eroded, but it is real. It also comes at a cost. Sometimes free people will do things we don’t want them to.
A society that has no morals, can never really be free.
Take out Chicago, and the murder rate in Illinois is close to that in Switzerland.
Subtract the murders committed by blacks, and America is a pretty safe place.
White Americans commit mass murder close to their proportion of the population, Asian Americans or residents somewhat higher but mass murders are a very small fraction of all killings. “Run of the mill” murders...whites commit at a low rate, Asians even lower.
It’s not the guns that make the murders...France has lots of hunters, Vermont and Czechia very few laws regarding guns, Istael and Switzerland require and armed populace.
Murder is not the price we pay for freedom or for owning gins. Murder is a consequence of the disposition of the people.