How Violent Are We?

When it comes to violent assaults on other human beings, We're Number One!  We're Number One!  How's that for American "exceptionalism"?

This chart compares deaths from violent assualts in America to those in other "OECD" countries.  That'd be the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 34 nations, including the USA, that essentially comprises the "developed" world.  Thirty-three of those countries are in that pink smear across the bottom.  And who's that one standout?

It's us!  Isn't it time that we change, that we agree to do better?