The Globalist

Reflections on the latest high school shooting in the United States and what it says about the state of American “civilization.”

The share of global guns in the United States is at least ten times the country’s population share.

The Las Vegas massacre has exposed that the idea of the existence of an American “society” is increasingly becoming pure fiction.

U.S. elites claiming moral superiority by demanding that other people do the sacrificing on trade issues is unprincipled hypocrisy.

A narrative that treats the U.S. as the unsuspecting victim of attacks by supporters of ISIS is misleading.

The US stands out for lack of policy response after mass shootings.

The US gun death rate is the highest in the G7.

The US has more mass shootings than any other nation.

The US gun ownership rate is the highest in the world.

On gun deaths, Americans knew what needed doing half a century ago.