Apparently not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... oa98FHuaU0
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Does the US have more violent crime than the UK?
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Well, the murder rate is lower in the UK, even if the violent crime rate is much higher. What that strongly suggests to me is that the violent crimes in the UK are less lethal because there are so many fewer guns. The guy on the video goes into a rant about how guns in the US aren't the problem, but his own statistics strongly suggest they're a big problem. It's good to know, though, that our violent crime rate here has dropped 50% over the last 20 years. He rightly points out that the media and US politicians don't make much of this. My own hunch about why is that the media loves to sensationalize crime, and politicians like to play on people's fears, and a lowered crime rate doesn't play into either of these strategies. In fact, the lowered crime rate may be due to a lower percentage of the population being under 30. I've read in a number of sources over the years that the percentage of young men in a population correlates with the violence rate. More mature men are less violence-prone.
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