Is the United States really a developed country?

[pastro243]

numberwang said:

pastro243 said:

I think it's more of a cultural thing, the gun issue 

Gun violence is highest in urban, densely populated areas and it overwhelmingly a gang problem.

The five most dangerous counties (all Democrats) have 68% of all murders. According to a 2013 PEW Research Center survey, the household gun ownership rate in rural areas was 2.11 times greater than in urban areas... Despite lower gun ownership, urban areas experience much higher murder rates.

https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/

Mexico has 5x the murder rate of the US, but strict gun control, again a gang problem foremost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

I thought we were comparing to UK going by the post I quoted, which has also highly populated areas (last poster said it was the reason police didn't have to use guns)

On US murder rate, it's still pretty high compared to other developed countries. Hell, even countries from south america have lower rates such as Chile, and Argentina and Ecuador have comparable rates