US murder rate was also far higher than Western Europe before either country started cracking down on guns. Of course, when you start looking Demographics, the murder rates for Caucasians in the US is not materially different than in Europe.
These homicide studies between the US and Europe tend to miss dozens of factors.
I’ve lived around Germany off and on, for twenty years. If you did go and look at murders and assaults...you can red-tag urbanized areas, and come to realize that the vastly rural areas of the country rarely see any murders or assaults.
You can also go and ask Germans about crime before 1990 (the West Germany days), and most will tell you that the crime rate and murders were half of what you see today. Since the wall came down, and borders opened up...there’s been a trend going on.
But the one factor I will point out....nowhere in Germany will you find some urban jungle area (where you need to carry a gun on you in the car) like Baltimore or Memphis. There are no-go areas in highly urbanized areas (like Hamburg or Berlin), but it’s more to avoid the doped-up freaks and the street crime associated with them.
With the Muslim invasion, this will change. Of course, many if tggem use knives, bombs, and trucks for their homicides.
Compare traffic deaths in the US to the other industrialized nations and you will find similar differences. More Americans die in traffic accidents than the UK, Ger., Japan, France, Canada, Scandinavia, BenNeLux, Spain and Italy combined.
What is the reason? I do not know except maybe something in our national character causes chance taking behavior. Maybe TR’s speech at the hunting camp in Wind and the Lion was just John Milius being spot on about the American Character.
Where race and ethnicity of the offender is known, 5,004 are white, 6,095 are black. Of the "white" offenders, 1,533 are Hispanic, leaving 3,451 non-Hispanic whites.
So out of the 11099 homicides where the offender's ethnicity is known, 3,451 (31%) are non-Hispanic white.
The 2016 US homicide rate is 5.4 per 100K. 31% of that is 1.7 per 100K. The European Union homicide rate is 1.0
Also, many inner-city black-on-black murders are unsolved, and thus the perp's ethnicity is officially "unknown".
Treat black murder separately from the rest of the population’s and the US is as peaceful as Sweden... before the Moslem invasion.
Once you account for suicides (not sure if they are included), criminal on criminal murders and justifiable homicides, our rate isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be. Sadly, there are many cases of domestic violence.
But, once you get down to random murders, where the perp and the victim didn’t know each other, we are no worse than any western country.
WORLD MURDER STATISTICS
From the World Health Organization:
The latest Murder Statistics for the world:
Murders per 100,000 citizens.
Honduras 91.6
El Salvador 69.2
Cote d’lvoire (Ivory Coast) 56.9
Jamaica 522
Venezuela 45.1
Belize 41.4
US Virgin Islands 39.2
Guatemala 38.5
Saint Kits and Nevis 38.2
Zambia 38.0
Uganda 36.3
Malawi 36.0
Lesotho 35.2
Trinidad and Tobago 35.2
Colombia 33.4
South Africa 31.8
Congo 30.8
Central African Republic 29.3
Bahamas 27.4
Puerto Rico 26.2
Saint Lucia 25.2
Dominican Republic 25.0
Tanzania 24.5
Sudan 24.2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9
Ethiopia 22.5
Guinea 22.5
Dominica 22.1
Burundi 21.7
Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7
Panama 21.6
Brazil 21.0
Equatorial Guinea 20.7
Guinea-Bissau 20.2
Kenya 20.1
Kyrgyzstan 20.1
Cameroon 19.7
Montserrat 19.7
Greenland 19.2
Angola 19.0
Guyana 18.6
Burkina Faso 18.0
Eritrea 17.8
Namibia 17.2
Rwanda 17.1
Mexico 16.9
Chad 15.8
Ghana 15.7
Ecuador 15.2
North Korea 15.2
Benin 15.1
Sierra Leone 14.9
Mauritania 14.7
Botswana 14.5
Zimbabwe 14.3
Gabon 13.8
Nicaragua 13.6
French Guiana 13.3
Papua New Guinea 13.0
Swaziland 12.9
Bermuda 12.3
Comoros 12.2
Nigeria 12.2
Cape Verde 11.6
Grenada 11.5
Paraguay 11.5
Barbados 11.3
Togo 10.9
Gambia 10.8
Peru 10.8
Myanmar 10.2
Russia 10.2
Liberia 10.1
Costa Rica 10.0
Nauru 9.8
Bolivia 8.9
Mozambique 8.8
Kazakhstan 8.8
Senegal 8.7
Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7
Mongolia 8.7
British Virgin Islands 8.6
Cayman Islands 8.4
Seychelles 8.3
Madagascar 8.1
Indonesia 81
Mali 8.0
Pakistan 7.8
Moldova 7.5
Kiribati 7.3
Guadeloupe 7.0
Haiti 6.9
Timor-Leste 6.9
Anguilla 6.8
Antigua and Barbuda 6.8
Lithuania 6.6
Uruguay 5.9
Philippines 5.4
Ukraine 5.2
Estonia 5.2
Cuba 5.0
Belarus 4.9
Thailand 4.8
Suriname .6
Laos 4.6
Georgia 4.3
Martinique 4.2
And ...................
The United States 4.2 !!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL the countries (109) above America have 100% gun bans.