Chris Murphy

“America is, and always has been, an abnormally violent place. Compared to other high-income nations, the chance you will die a violent death at the hands of another person is ten times higher if you live in the United States than any other place. This is driven by a gun homicide rate that is a mind-blowing twenty-five times higher than that in other advanced countries, but rates of rape and assault are also much higher in the United States. And America’s outlier status as a wildly violent nation isn’t new. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, America’s homicide rates—the primary historic means to compare violence across societies—has been in a class by itself.”
― Chris Murphy, The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy