A pro-gun person said a while ago "An armed society is a polite society".
They must have beautiful manners in Baghdad then.
Analysis of armed society in the past century,not necessarily only in the USA,but everywhere,includes more 'honourable' use of arms (knifes and guns)
Nowadays you eat 2 or 3 bullets in the skull for few quids,stab because you had the latest ipod,or simply someone testing his new beretta.
I still remember someone who went to afghanistan in the past well before war, relating how a 10 year old kid painted his grandmother with an AK-47 owned by his dad,the reason being he was refused more food.
I can understand understand societies differ in mentality and geographically,but at the end,the result is the same: death.