Jan 12, 2017 hardly a day goes by without someone calling for gun control as the way to reduce violence in america. In the fbis uniform crime reporting ucr program, violent crime is composed of four offenses. Acts of violence, he wrote in american violence, 1970 are those which kill or injure persons or animals or do significant damage to property. America boasts the highest violent crime rates among developed countries in addition to having the largest prison population. Violence in america gun control these related subjects have become more and more in the news lately. Compared to other countries this is an extremely large amount of guns. Why america is more violent than other democracies us news. The history of crime violence, cooperation, peace robert gurr, ted on. What profession has the highest incidence of workplace violence. But the slaughter in newtown, the worst single event in this country in eleven years and three months, should lead to a.