The numbers, and explanations, are both fascinating and despairing.

But, as an outsider (AU) looking in, they're not at all surprising.

Getting most of my information about the USA from what might be called (there) as left-leaning (but elsewhere as centrist) -- or witty aphorisms like 'Russia's about to find out why we don't have health care' (wrt weapons shipment to Ukraine), or the despairingly persistently applicable '"No Way to Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens' satirical headline -- this all seemed to be a generally well-acknowledged consequence of the society there?

To informed USA citizens, are these figures genuinely unexpected?

Or alternatively, is it the figures for the rest of the world that are the unexpected revelation here?