{"id":18534,"date":"2025-07-09T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:09:34","slug":"why-americans-are-so-violent-glenn-loury-john-mcwhorter-jens-ludwig-the-glenn-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18534","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Are So Violent | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter &amp; Jens Ludwig | The Glenn Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. murder rate is way higher than other developed countries. Our non-gun murder rate is normal, but our gun-murder rate is huge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much gun violence is not rational. It&#8217;s not clearly motivated by money or lack of fear of the justice system. It&#8217;s just two guys getting into an argument&nbsp;who fail to solve it peacefully and someone pulls a gun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parts of certain cities are overwhelmed with crime, so children are often left to fend for themselves. This develops a culture and an intuitive sense that if I don&#8217;t respond to provocation with violence, I will be taken advantage of. This leads people to instinctively respond to perceived&nbsp;provocation with deadly force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although gang violence is a big problem, most shootings are not gang related.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Americans Are So Violent | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter &amp; Jens Ludwig | The Glenn Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2raVsK4gnmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. murder rate is way higher than other developed countries. Our non-gun murder rate is normal, but our gun-murder rate is huge. <\/p>\n<p>Much gun violence is not rational. It&#8217;s not clearly motivated by money or lack of fear of the justice system. It&#8217;s just two guys getting into an argument who fail to solve it peacefully and someone pulls a gun. <\/p>\n<p>Parts of certain cities are overwhelmed with crime, so children are often left to fend for themselves. This develops a culture and an intuitive sense that if I don&#8217;t respond to provocation with violence, I will be taken advantage of. This leads people to instinctively respond to perceived provocation with deadly force. <\/p>\n<p>Although gang violence is a big problem, most shootings are not gang related. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2raVsK4gnmo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[56,961,744,202,53,110,1224,407,109,972,847],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black","tag-cities","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-deaths","tag-firearms","tag-gang-violence","tag-gun-deaths","tag-guns","tag-murder","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18535,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions\/18535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}