The US is quite unique as far as gun ownership and gun usage is concerned, so it would be impossible to draw meaningful conclusions from a comparison between the US and Europe.

I live in Belgium and gun ownership is rare, but gun usage by the police is rare too and strictly regulated. For example, the police are not allowed to draw a gun on someone wielding a knife in Belgium, because that would be a disproportionate amount of violence. Because it’s a rare occurrence, every death by the police is covered in the news and from the past decade I can only remember 3 deaths by the police in the past decade, of which only one was by guns. There could have been more of course, but our number of fatal police shootings is almost negligible when compared to the US.

So basically, you found that states with more violent crime have less basic police training on average, which may explain the strong correlation between the training hours and number of fatal shootings? 🤔

If I’m not mistaken this is more commonly called dysorthographia, though it could also be regarded as a subtype of dyslexia.

If you like webtoons, the online manhwa Noblesse is exactly what you’re looking for (slice of life + fantasy). You can read it legally in the Naver webtoon app.

I don’t know any magic trick to find fantasy or science fiction books that break the epic hero stereotype. I just brows through the books and pick one that seems interesting. Just by reading the back of the book I can usually discern if it follows those stereotypes or not, though sometimes the end result is still surprising. For example, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series is basically a large stab at those stereotypes (both following and not following them).

Some recommendations:

• Ursula LeGuin’s books and short stories regularly have a very strong ‘slice of life feeling’ to me. It’s one of my favorite authors. If you’d like to read about normal life in a fantasy or science fiction setting, her short stories are the way to go.
• Robin Hobb: Her books do have a central hero (who doesn’t want to be a hero) and the issues are larger than life kinds of problems, but they don’t follow the LOTR epic quest stereotype at all and they’re amazing to read.

In my experience, female authors are a bit more likely to write outside those stereotypes, but that’s certainly not a general rule.

A lot of fantasy and science fiction authors tend to write about larger than life and/or world-threatening affairs, so if you don’t want that your options are going to be very limited within these genres. If you’re also happy with a book that has both large issues and a ‘slice of life’ feel, you’re going to have a lot more options. For example, there are a lot of books with a “school life” feel together with a larger revolving plot (the Harry Potter books, Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician trilogy, …). I would also recommend checking out Garth Nix’s books (especially the books of the old kingdom), because he also shows what it’s like to live in the fantasy worlds he creates (especially in the book Lirael, though that’s already the second book in a series).

If that population is unable to execute what they agree on, this will basically be useless, so I disagree with the title.