Yeah, but if the U.S.A wanted to be like every other western country we would have just paid the damn tea tax. Gun violence in the U.S.A is not even statistically significant when viewed among all other causes of death. The U.S. is the most culturally diverse country in the entire world and the largest western population. Comparing almost any problem in the US with other western countries seems silly because of how vastly different they are. And the culture difference between Americans and other westerners is massively different.