Why does the US have so many more “bad guys” than other developed countries? What does that say about us?

I ask because we have the highest rate of gun deaths in the developed world and because Republicans and Trump supporters insist that we can’t have any more gun control because “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and “we don’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem”. Why do we have a “morality problem”? I thought we were “the greatest country on Earth”? So we’re the greatest country on Earth, we just have the shittiest people?

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Scooter · 26-30, M

It seems to be something with our society. We are far from the only country to consume large amounts of violent video games, and mental illness isn’t just present in our country (not to mention the fact that some argue that some shooters didn’t show any obvious signs of mental illness before the shootings).

It might be that we’re a highly individualistic culture that romanticizes fighting for things (which includes violent fighting), but I’m not sure how one would even go about proving that’s the cause (if this qualities are even unique enough to the USA to be considered the reason)