An Attempted Assassination of Trump Is Part of a Global Trend (Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs)
It is commonplace for Americans to assume that their country’s problems are sui generis. Since the July 13 assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump, many commentators have portrayed the event and the tensions around it as unprecedented. Others have reached for comparisons, but they have almost always been domestic—focusing, for instance, on the astounding number of assault weapons in private hands in the United States compared with the number in every other country on earth.