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https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-43#disablemobile

Are we just a violent society?

It is hard to say because they don't show you the numbers of other countries that have similar populations.