why america is so unique in its epidemic of violence to talk about just that i'm joined now by dr james gilligan clinical professor of psychiatry at new york university and author of the book series violence reflections on a national epidemic and most recently why some politicians are more dangerous than others thank you so much for coming on james thanks for inviting me so you've written a series of books on this very topic even researching this for a very long time over the course of your career first give us a sense of how america compares the rest of the world in terms of violence. america's murder rates are from five to ten times higher than they are in the countries of western europe there are good five times higher than they are in the other english speaking the baucus. and japan which is about a western but in other words would be economically developed countries of the world the west. stands alone. why is the u.s. so on equal compared to these countries and why do we have such a warped perception that it's not. only in all the while it's rays are the fact that we have greatest degree of

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