5.30 per 100,000 for the US, 1.20 per 100,000 for the UK
Edit: For everyone saying “well if you took out cities X, Y and Z that number would be way lower”, that’s not how statistics work. Unless you’re eliminating comparable British cities, you’re just trying to skew the numbers in your favour.
The U.S. is indeed a wealthy country, but the vast difference between rich and poor reflects the inequalities found in poor countries.
That is, the U.S. has an inequality problem. The huge gap between the poor and wealthy are more similar to countriers like Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico than it is to Europe. The murder-rate in the U.S. is also closer to those countries than it is to Europe.
Huge differences in wealth usually leads to more violence and crime which in turn leads to a lot of murders.
This is a valuable distinction to make. The US isn't a first world country in the same way as most other first world countries. It's a rich country and a really poor country Frankensteined together.
Like the gun problem. All of this gun violence is a symptom of a much larger problem, that an AR ban wouldn’t solve. Inequality is at the root of 90 percent of gun homicide
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u/PortableDoor5 Aug 05 '19
out of sheer curiosity, what are the murder stats regardless of means of killing?