"Even their claim of an "epidemic of violence" is fake. That claim, like so many other of their claims, has been so often dogmatically repeated that few think to question the claim by checking the FBI and other data. Homicide rates have been stable to slightly declining for decades except for inner city teens and young adults involved with illicit drug trafficking. We have noticed that, if one subtracts the inner city contribution to violence, American homicide rates are lower than in Britain and the other paragons of gun control."
It doesn't matter how many times it's repeated, it's still not true.
The FBI breaks down the homicide figures depending on the size of town they happen in.
Cities 25,000 - 50,000 people, murder rate 3.3 per 100,000
Cities 10,000 - 25,000 people, rate 2.7
Cities less than 10,000 people, rate 2.8
Non metropolitan counties 25,000 people and over, rate 3.3
Non metropolitan counties, 10,000 to 25,000 people, rate 3.0
Non metropolitan counties, less than 10,000 people, rate 3.7
England and Wales, including large cities, 1.6
London, rate 2.4
Remove the large city's figures from the England and Wales total and you get a rate of less than 1.
Certainly inner cities have higher crime rates, that's true all over the western world, but even excluding those areas, the US rate is way above Britain's (including Britain's urban areas).
It's also way above Canada's, which has a rate of 1.73 (including urban areas)
The British rate also includes manslaughter by negligence, which is excluded from the US figures, so there is even more of a difference than it appears from the stats (not sure if Canada includes manslaughtr by negligence)
