The argument is a good one, but the numbers are stale as an old box of saltines, IMHO. Can you provide more up to date data?
I'm looking. I trying google without much luck. I'm going to check the US Dept. of Justice.
This is the first article that I ever saw such a comparison of homicides by that many countries. I spent most of the evening after I read your comment on google trying to find the latest version of the United Nations report "The 1996 Demographic Yearbook", but I couldn't even find the 1996 version. I'm going to a library to see if I can borrow a copy or look at a reference copy of one.