"One beer too many, and a verbal dispute suddenly and unexpectedly explodes into a punching match.
Such things happen every night in bars, pubs, and cafés all across the world, but the bloody noses and aching jaws that generally follow from these dustups in Canada, Norway, or France often turn out to be gunshot wounds in the United States."
Paul Auster @lithub

https://lithub.com/paul-auster-why-is-america-the-most-violent-country-in-the-western-world/