The reason for this is pretty simple. A) the US allows for a greater dispersion in economic outcome. More poverty = more crime B) the US has more citizens own

The reason for this is pretty simple. A) the US allows for a greater dispersion in economic outcome. More poverty = more crime B) the US has more citizens owning weapons per capita than any other nation. More guns = more gun deaths C) When you combine above average crime levels with above average levels of gun prevalence, you get more dangerous police encounters and more deaths While this is extremely easy for the rest of the world to understand, I’m confident the US will never figure this out because: D) the US is above-average at monetizing their media industry and creating distracting narratives, so they will spend decades of attention on the wrong things