This report is a few years old. See highlighted towards the end for US stats. This is pretty eye-opening, and make you wonder about the anti-gun lobby.

I can’t find the original UN report, and if you run across it, would you post the link?

By James Slack
UPDATED: 18:14 EST, 2 July 2009

Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

Britain has an even worse violence rate than South Africa (file picture)
The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.
In the decade following the party's election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.
The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:
• The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
• It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
• The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
• It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.



The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609. …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...Africa-U-S.html

The US sure is getting a bad rap if these stats are accurate.

I found a number of references to this and earlier studies with similar results. The UN website(s) is very difficult to negotiate, but I may try again to find that report.

More information:



http://www.conservativedailynews.com/201...le-should-know/

Fine print on the bottom says:
Deaths per year from selected causes. Source: Center for Disease Control. FBI, U.S. Federal Government

And, more sources:

http://www.gunsandcrime.org/stats.html

http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

http://gunowners.org/fs0404.htm