Isn't that really a gun problem, though? If you start looking at violent crime in general, the US may actually be lower. It's just way easier for us to murder each other. See places like https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/jun/24/blog-posti...

which state, with lots of asterisks about why this comparison is difficult and likely not telling the complete story, that:

>For England and Wales, we added together three crime categories: "violence against the person, with injury," "most serious sexual crime," and "robbery." This produced a rate of 775 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

>For the United States, we used the FBI’s four standard categories for violent crime that Bier cited. We came up with a rate of 383 violent crimes per 100,000 people.