Why is the U.S.A. such a violent place?

Most are familiar with the U.S.'s history of bloodshed around the world from Iraq to Vietnam to Chile to Nicaragua.. but even more alarming is the high rate of violence amongst themselves.

The per capita murder rate in the US is staggeringly, almost three time that of the rest of the Western World... a rate they have the dubious distinction of sharing with the likes of Georgia and Uruguay... (SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems - U.N Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mu... At .042 / thousand within the US, the next highest western nation's murder rate is France at .017 / thousand.

How is it that supposed world leader is so out of step with its peers?

Does the United States have any real moral authority on the world stage when their own population is so disfunctional?

Why are Americans killing each other?

I think that it is a mixture of reasons that make the US so violent. It is a set of the right factors of modern civilization taken to the wrong extremes. Freedom, which is very essential to human socities, becomes the very reason that criminals justify their crimes with. Economic prosperity, which is supposed to be the fruit of a sound economy, is replaced by fraud, theft and advantagism, just because money is the language of everyday life. Think, think, think... you will find that every righteousness is replaced by evil of the same nature but to the wrong intent.

Why is this happening? Why 'right' is taken to the 'wrong'? "The love of this life is the head of every sin," said Imam Ali. When people dream about "Heaven on Earth" and forget God's Heaven, you would expect even the righteous to become more devilish than Satan. The USA is just that "Heaven on Earth" that is corrupted by earthly needs. People have to think about the Hereafter to realize how stupid it is to commit any crime in this life.

Lead in the pipes

Dont hate us becuase we can buy whatever we want whenever we want.

Its not.

We are one of the few countries who have a sound infrastructure to truly analyze.

Do you think Venzuela really has a solid human affairs structure to analyze such a topic?

I think there are a lot of reasons:
Like migration of gangs from other countries.
The seperation of the classes
And alot more parents worl long hours and just dont teach their kids like they used to.

Oh, please give me a break about this "bloodhed around the world" crap. Unfortunately, the truth is that being a global superpower means everyone expects us to protect them. Most of Europe was for the invasion of Iraq, but do not posess the resources themselves like we do.

What country are YOU from? My guess is yours has been in some wars or "bloodshed" too. World War II perhaps?

As to murders, that is a subject I do agree with you on. It's a ridiculous problem, there's no real answer. Lots of people think there's an answer, but it's not that simple. There's probably hundreds of variables involved.

think there have been 6000 muslims murdered by other muslims in the name of islam in the past few months. You wanna check your ignorance at the door? We don't need no stinking UN thank you very much.

Hi we are just getting ready for when we come visit all these other countries that make fun of us.. and critcal and burn our flag... and take our Money and Food we send and then Kill Us in their Peacful Country ........

Then when we get there ,, we already know how to Kill A**holes like that,,, real easy.....

good luck ... buddy......

not enough laws and restrictions...people just do what ever they want, and get away with it....but at the same time if u dont like it...leave, cuz i love my country

peckr wabbit you and your friend sukadikbob are truly disapointing in your questions.....please get an orignal question....i just asked this question like 2 hours ago about canada and you answered it.....just like canada to copy what an American does.
To answer your question its because there are too many canadians in American and they are the truly violent ones

lack of parenting and morales

I dunno, that there's any one single answer to that. It is, in a roundabout way, written in their constitution that they can kill one another. It was excercised in their civil war. That was then, now I think it may just be a mind set. Accepted that it may happen and it's better to hit first than risk possibly getting hit. Defensive in nature. Actually, a good example can be found in some of jzwigger's posts. He is assuming a defensive stance and striking out at anything he feels may be threatening, even if it's benign. Kinda like shooting the cat before it scratches. There you go, he's proof of my answer :)