“Actually the UK isnt. More violent than it was, but in modern times the UK has had a very low level of violence.”
That’s probably true, although some of the stats coming out of there for non-violent crime look pretty bad. In any case, I just throw out that line whenever a violent crime in another country is in the news, since the US is always being called violent due to our gun culture (I stole the line from Beverly Hills Cop).
Remember that the UK has something like TWENTY EIGHT ‘violent’ offences on the statute books. Whilst America has four. Most violent British crimes are burglary and theft, NOT crimes against the person.
The UK (60m) has 900 murders a year. Thats all murders.
America (300m) has 17000. Eighteen times the number with five times the population.
America has the highest rate of murder for a developed country. Your numbers and rates of murder, gun homicide and rape (three of the big categories) are all sky high compared to the UK. And 75% of the world’s serial killers and rapists live in the US.
I love America, but I feel safer, much safer, living in the UK.