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And yet, not as strict. It's a revolving door with high recidivism.

Violent crime tends to scale more with poverty. The relationship with firearm laws is weak. See: the U.K.

This idea that we need to be stricter is what led to the crime bills now under bipartisan attack

USA is more strict. Also, Japan lock up much much less people then America.

Yet also, Americans are obsessed with idea of punishment. Their first idea of what to do with basically any issue is to punish more.