The story told there is, the US has more gun crime, but isn't a much more violent place in general.
On the other hand, the scale on that chart you're looking at bottoms out at 4.9, which is not informative. The city of New York alone has 8.5 million people living in it, and a murder rate of 3.9 per 100,000 (2016). Compare that to London, with 8.7 million people and a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 (2015).
In relative terms, the murder rate in New York is TRIPLE that of London. In absolute terms, that's not much of a difference. Approximately a 0.0039% chance versus a 0.0012% chance of being murdered in a given year.
That is a not exactly convincing evidence that the US is a fundamentally different place in terms of violence.
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Date: 6/10/17 05:55 (UTC)https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/map-here-are-countries-worlds-highest-murder-rates
The story told there is, the US has more gun crime, but isn't a much more violent place in general.
On the other hand, the scale on that chart you're looking at bottoms out at 4.9, which is not informative. The city of New York alone has 8.5 million people living in it, and a murder rate of 3.9 per 100,000 (2016). Compare that to London, with 8.7 million people and a murder rate of 1.3 per 100,000 (2015).
In relative terms, the murder rate in New York is TRIPLE that of London. In absolute terms, that's not much of a difference. Approximately a 0.0039% chance versus a 0.0012% chance of being murdered in a given year.
That is a not exactly convincing evidence that the US is a fundamentally different place in terms of violence.