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My question is, why does it happen so frequently in the USA? Do you think you have more mental illness than other countries? Or are citizens of the USA less rational than the rest of the world?

It isn't higher than the rest of the world. The US is 87th in homicides per capita per Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by...

We do seem too have more school shootings. If you look at gun deaths we have a high gun suicide rate (see Suicide Belt out West). The interesting thing is that Japan had the same murders per capita rate as the US prior to WW2, but now has .3 per 100,000. Gun folk like to claim that if you remove blacks and Latinos, the US has the same rate as Europe.

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