USA Gets Low Ranking For "Stability and Prosperity"

Jane’s Country Risk has compiled a ranking of countries by its assessment of each country's stability and prosperity.

A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic.
The US lies 22nd and Switzerland, normally associated with wealth and untouchable stability, is rated 17th, losing points in the assessment of its social achievements.

So why is the USA ranked so low?

Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border.

I won't argue about the issue of drugs, but we can see from the comment about "small arms owned by Americans" that Mr. Le Miere has a political axe to grind. The right of law-abiding Americans to own weapons has enhanced our stability, not harmed it.

The same Constitution that guaranteed our right to bear arms has been in effect in the USA for over 220 years now. The second amendment has been an essential and critical element of the stability and continuity of our democracy.