E.g. Serbia, which is politically about as much of a joke country as the US, and in a bad way due to various outcomes of the Balkan wars.
Following the common US explanations of what causes mass shootings, they should be shooting each other constantly. Not really happening.
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I have no idea! But I can tell you:
Serbs are *very* comfortable with violence, and share many socioeconomic & cultural problems with the US.
Whatever is going on in the US is a fairly unique phenomenon. Has more in common with "shithole countries" than it likes to admit.
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You might get beaten up for talking shit in Serbia, but you're not likely to be shot as a random bystander (or at all, really).
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Even Polish people are less anxious and neurotic IME, which is just crazy. This country is hyperneurotic at all times.
Something is seriously wrong about the US, and I don't think we know how to explain it. All these things we mentioned are problems, but is there a The Problem?
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Not sure how servicable this explanation is in the specific case of gun violence, but the bigger picture framing seems apt, yeah.
Polish culture is fractious, but along defined lines, & featuring relatively contained narratives ('Nationalism Good' vs 'Nationalism Bad', etc.)
Whereas in the US, even the most contentious partisan issues are fairly self-contained, circlejerky affairs.
(Does anybody outside of the neoliberal wing of the DNC give a shit about the Russian Collusion narrative, more than once a month?)