Not sure what could be interpreted as sarcasm in my comment. It is pretty direct and on the nose.

> Having no gun violence and having a higher life expectancy than America is not something to be proud of and not a useful benchmark

/s ?

What I mean by this is - is that this is such a low bar - of not having rampant gun violence and short life expectancy, especially when correlating them with GDP. This should not be a point of pride or comparison to beat this bar. Most developed countries in the world achieve more than America on these metrics, therefore it's a useless benchmark.

if America has gun violence, then Germany has car ramming into crowds violence, and both problems have similar roots