Is Americas highest rate of incarceration in the developed world related to its comparitively draconian?
I think you are making a mistake about guns. It’s not having the means of implementing the legitimate social right of armed self defense that is the problem. It’s because we ALSO have the least extensive and most poorly funded social programs in the industrialized world. And we treat relatively minor crimes, or even, like cannabis, things that shouldn’t even BE crimes, like major crimes. Canadians are almost as heavily armed as we are. If you only count long arms, not handguns, they are MORE heavily armed than we are. However, even Canada’s conservatives support social programs that the most “left-wing” Democrat doesn’t advocate, or would even oppose. That’s why they have less violence in their society. Plus, since our country has had such a huge surplus due to the construction of the post-WW2 empire, “trickle-down” HAS to a certain extent worked. We haven’t had a mass working-class movement to scare the bosses and their liberal and conservative political servants into giving us any re
