Nick Reiner who killed his parents diagnosed with schizophrenia- Here is why crime, murder, financial crime is a way of life and order of the day in America. 99% of those that committed mass murder mostly with gun often go free just like financial criminals but in China is a different case. 

1. The Nick Reiner Case and Mental Illness

Cases where an offender is diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses raise complex legal and ethical questions:

• Diagnosis does not equal inevitability of violence. The overwhelming majority of people with schizophrenia are not violent. When violence occurs, it is often linked to untreated illness, substance abuse, social isolation, or systemic failure in mental health care.

• Insanity defenses are rare and difficult to win. In the United States, fewer than 1% of felony cases raise an insanity defense, and only a fraction succeed. Those found not guilty by reason of insanity are typically committed to secure psychiatric institutions, often for periods comparable to or longer than prison sentences.

• Public perception vs. reality. High-profile cases create the impression that offenders “go free,” when in practice many are confined, supervised, or institutionalized rather than released outright.

That said, failures in early intervention, mental health funding, and follow-up care are real and persistent problems in the U.S.

2. Violent Crime and Gun Violence in the United States

Your argument reflects a widespread frustration with how normalized violence appears in American society.

• Structural factors: Easy access to firearms, fragmented policing, political polarization, and a constitutional framework that limits certain regulatory responses all contribute to higher rates of gun-related deaths compared to other developed countries.

• Impunity is not universal. Most mass shooters do not “go free”; many are killed during the act, prosecuted, or sentenced to life imprisonment. However, preventive accountability—stopping attacks before they happen—remains weak.

• Normalization through repetition. Media saturation, partisan framing, and cultural desensitization make repeated mass shootings feel routine, which erodes public trust in institutions and reinforces the perception of lawlessness.

The core issue is less that violence is legally permitted, and more that systemic prevention and deterrence mechanisms are inadequate.

3. Financial Crime and Elite Impunity in the U.S.

This is where your critique has stronger empirical grounding.

• Two-tier justice perception: Financial crimes involving large institutions or powerful individuals often result in fines, settlements, or deferred prosecution agreements rather than prison sentences.

• Regulatory capture: Complex financial systems, lobbying, and revolving doors between regulators and industry weaken enforcement.

• Scale vs. consequence mismatch: Crimes that cause massive societal harm (e.g., financial crises, large-scale fraud) frequently result in penalties that are small relative to the damage done.

This fuels the belief that crime is not only tolerated, but structurally embedded for certain classes.

4. Comparison With China’s Approach

China operates under a fundamentally different legal and political model:

• Deterrence through severity: Violent crime, corruption, and large-scale financial crimes are often punished swiftly and harshly, including long prison sentences or capital punishment.

• Centralized authority: The state has far greater discretion to investigate, detain, and punish without the same due process constraints found in liberal democracies.

• Trade-offs: While this can produce lower visible crime rates and faster enforcement, it comes at the cost of limited transparency, restricted civil liberties, and fewer legal protections for the accused.

Thus, the difference is not simply “better justice,” but a different balance between state power and individual rights.

5. Is Crime “a Way of Life” in America?

As an analytical claim, this is better reframed:

• Crime is not officially sanctioned, but

• Selective enforcement, unequal accountability, and institutional inertia create an environment where certain forms of crime—especially white-collar and systemic harm—are effectively normalized.

• The gap between moral outrage and legal consequence is what creates the perception that disorder is the “order of the day.”

6. Bottom Line

• Violent crime in the U.S. is driven by structural failures, not legal endorsement.

• Mental illness is often scapegoated for deeper policy and institutional breakdowns.

• Financial crime enjoys disproportionate leniency compared to its societal harm.

• China’s system prioritizes deterrence and control, while the U.S. prioritizes rights and procedure—sometimes at the cost of accountability.

When Crime Becomes Routine: What America’s Justice System Reveals About Power, Violence, and Accountability

The killing of parents by their own child, later diagnosed with schizophrenia, is not merely a tragic family story. It is a window into a deeper and more disturbing reality about American society: a system in which violence, mass murder, and financial crime are no longer shocking aberrations but recurring features of daily life.

Each new case is discussed briefly, politicized instantly, and then absorbed into the background noise—until the next one occurs.

Mental Illness as an Explanation—and an Excuse

When horrific crimes occur, particularly within families, mental illness is often invoked as the primary explanation. While severe psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia require serious attention and humane treatment, the pattern is troubling:

• Mental illness is frequently used to individualize blame, diverting attention from systemic failures.

• The United States chronically underfunds mental health care while allowing easy access to lethal weapons.

• Intervention usually happens after irreversible harm, not before.

The result is a cycle where tragedy is explained, sympathized with, and ultimately normalized—without meaningful structural correction.

Mass Violence and the Normalization of Horror

No other developed country experiences mass shootings with the regularity of the United States. Schools, churches, malls, workplaces, and even private homes have become potential crime scenes.

Yet the most alarming aspect is not the violence itself—it is the societal response:

• Public outrage fades quickly.

• Political paralysis sets in immediately.

• Media coverage moves on as if mass death were routine.

Most perpetrators do not escape punishment in the narrow legal sense. However, the failure lies in prevention, deterrence, and accountability upstream. A system that repeatedly allows foreseeable disasters cannot credibly claim innocence simply because it prosecutes after the fact.

Financial Crime: The Untouchable Class of Offenses

If violent crime reveals the chaos at the bottom, financial crime exposes impunity at the top.

In the United States:

• Large-scale fraud, market manipulation, and corporate misconduct often end in fines or settlements.

• Individuals responsible for massive economic harm rarely face prison.

• Institutions are deemed “too big to fail” and, effectively, too powerful to jail.

This creates a two-tier moral order:

• Street crime is punished with force.

• Boardroom crime is negotiated with lawyers.

When the most destructive crimes receive the lightest consequences, crime ceases to be a deviation—it becomes a rational strategy.

Why the Comparison With China Is Uncomfortable—but Necessary

China operates under a vastly different system, one that prioritizes deterrence and state authority over individual procedural protections.

• Violent crime and corruption are punished swiftly and harshly.

• High-level officials and business figures are not immune to prosecution.

• The fear of consequence is real and widely understood.

This does not make China a moral ideal. Its system carries serious costs: limited civil liberties, constrained dissent, and opaque judicial processes. However, it forces an uncomfortable question:

Can a society claim to value justice if its most powerful criminals face the least risk?

Crime as a Structural Feature, Not an Accident

In America, crime persists not because laws do not exist, but because enforcement is selective, incentives are distorted, and consequences are unevenly distributed.

Violence flourishes where:

• Weapons are abundant,

• Mental health systems are weak,

• Political will is fragmented.

Elite crime flourishes where:

• Money buys delay,

• Complexity shields culpability,

• Power negotiates its own penalties.

Under such conditions, crime stops being an exception and becomes part of the operating system.

Conclusion: A Crisis of Accountability

The issue is not whether America is “worse” than other nations in some abstract moral sense.

The issue is whether a society can survive when:

• Mass death becomes background noise,

• Financial devastation carries no personal consequence,

• Accountability is inversely proportional to power.

Until justice is applied consistently—across class, status, and influence—crime will remain not just a problem, but a predictable outcome.

And when crime becomes predictable, it has already been normalized.