The USA is violent

Entrez PubMed: "the United States, which has extraordinarily high homicide rates in comparison with other highly industrialized countries"...
How is this violence manifested?

1. Children's cartoons have for years shown extraordinary levels of violence with characters shooting at, blowing up, suffocating, running over, burying. True the characters are not real and immediately start running and shooting again but what message does that send when the killing is accompanied by canned laughter? Would we let kids watch it if the characters were real people?
2. US business regulalry uses the language of violence eg "we will squash our opposition", "we will take no prisoners"
3. US churches use the language of violence: "we will conquer the land", "we will destroy the enemy" etc etc
4. US diplomacy is based around the fact that violence and violent threats are a part of the landscape. Negotition rarely seems to be between two equal nations
5. the USA has a gun culture responsible for 29,573 deaths per year this includes over 16 000 suicides, 8 times more suicide every year in the USA using guns than all of the people who died in September 11....(notice the USA has not declared war on suicide yet!)
6. the US uses violence to stem violence eg police carry and use guns, citizens carry weapons for self defenceand, prisoners are executed (sometimes wrongfully)
7. The US has the biggest cache of weapons of mass destruction and is responsible for the two single largest acts of nuclear violence (ie Hiroshima and Negasaki)

This is a country that was birthed in violence, united by violence and survives through violence. A disappointly grim picture of a nation that offers so much.