"people who's primary source of earned income is the sale of transportation of illegal substances"

Usually this group shows up in stats as "gang related crime" or something like that.

Basically it's all the violence that lawful businesses don't need to use to settle business disputes because they can use the courts and threat of state violence to settle their disputes instead whereas the drug industry needs to bring it in-house.

But why remove that demographic from the US statistic, before comparing with other nations?

Isn't that a bit disingenuous?

I'd imagine you'd see similar improvement in other countries stats, if you remove the poorest and the drug gangs.

So if you remove drug-related crime from the statistics, suddenly US look a lot less violent? That is a great way to solve the problem!

It's a correlation with poverty and gangs. If you take out gang on gang and suicide, assumung neither is relevant to you, it's true that the numbers become much better.

Do these people deserve to die?

If you join a gang you know what you're signing up for, and I find it hard to argue that an individual doesn't have the right to end their own life.