Why not both? The U.S. is peculiar among developed countries in having huge numbers of handguns, and it also has the highest rate of boys who grow up in chaotic, fatherless homes.
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… Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%), more than three times the share of children around the world who do so (7%). The study, which analyzed how people’s living arrangements differ by religion, also found that U.S. children from Christian and religiously unaffiliated families are about equally likely to live in this type of arrangement.
In comparison, 3% of children in China, 4% of children in Nigeria and 5% of children in India live in single-parent households. In neighboring Canada, the share is 15%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...st-one-parent/
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Fatherless households correlate strongly with violent crime (85 per cent of young men in prison for violent crime come from a fatherless household).
Lots of poorly socialized and angry young men with ready access to lethal firearms = very high violent crime rates.