Samuel, do you want the honest truth about our crime rate?
The murders and various killings are done by minority groups such as blacks and hispanics, as opposed to whites and asians. It's not about guns, it's about people groups within our society.
Here's the proof:
Further skewing this is the fact that Hispanics are lumped in with Whites, while they have higher violent crime rates than asians and caucasians (which would go along with crime rates in Latin American countries).
I don't mean to sound racist, but these are the hard truths of American society. Being the melting pot that we are, it does cause differences among races, primarily backed by lifestyle choices, and socio-economic backgrounds (as we can see with the Black crime rate, it's gone down as their education rates, and average income have gone up. The same can be said for Hispanics, too. However, far more are coming in-country which drives their rates up among the general populace - newer, 'safer' Hispanics are intergrated into our society while more illegals come across our border, which are more prone to crime and violence).
That's the simple reasoning behind US crime rates. Europe has a long standing heritage of a more closed society, we do not. It's both our blessing and curse.
*Edit*:
I should make a correction. I am not saying that only blacks and hispanics commit violent crimes. All races do. But there's plenty of statisical evidence that points to minorities (Hispanics and Blacks make up 25% of our population) comitting more crimes, per capita, than whites. Since this is true, it does have a tendancy to increase our crime rates. Europe, and other low-crime countries usually have one far more dominant ethnicity than we do.
- Japan 98.2%
- United Kingdom: 92.1%
- Germany: 91.2% (large portion of remaining 8.8% being other European ethnicities)
- United States: 65.9% (15% Hispanic, 12.8% black)
I believe this is a telling sign of why our crime rates are higher than Europe. There are far less in America. Also, one should note that legal gun ownership is much higher among whites than other races.
And again, as yet another release: I'm not attacking other races, I am merely pointing out correlating factors with our crime rates.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
