Amigos from the States, not sure what's out of whack with your society but so many things are settled with knifes and bullets.
The murder rates in Europe are a joke compared with the States.
I remember a stats from years ago were our most out of whack city in Canada (murder-wise) that year was Toronto with 3.2 murders per 100,000 people. Philly in the States was at 7.5 per 100,000 and it was kind of average. The stats in places like England and Sweden are way lower.
Don't get me wrong, I like my Americans from Stevie Ray on the guitar to TJ Dillashaw in UFC ... but holly shit, there are school shootings every freakin' two weeks. That's bizarre ...