The suicidal find a way. Where guns are not available, in at least one major comparable example, the suicide rate is different by being higher (by a lot). Sure, guns make it easy...but there are many other easy ways.
We're both "high trust" societies. Compare to the Chinese stereotype/archetype of not trusting someone outside the family to run part of the business, which helped to kill Wang in the US and abroad outside of the PRC tends to limit firms to simple types like trading companies.
I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough.
Sure, but I explicitly excluded non-modern countries. (I have lived in China.)
> I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough.
Okay, but you're not controlling for any variables. Like you say, there are many differences even if there are similarities too.