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Interestingly your article goes on tho say
Our preliminary attempt to make an apples-to-apples comparison shows a much smaller difference in violent crime rates between the two countries, but criminologists say differences in how the statistics are collected make it impossible to produce a truly valid comparison.
Your blogger clearly didn't like that conclusion and preferred twitter instead so I'll stick with the criminologists if its all the same.
A far more directly comparable figure is US/UK levels of incarceration which show the US at 707 per 100,000 vs the UK at 148. Coupled with your 4.7 times greater homicide rate these figures certainly give lie to the fact that the US is either safer or more law abiding than the UK.
List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you still do not understand what the term per capita means though you will obviously have difficulty in interpreting these figures correctly
Oh, so now you are going to try the old tactic of demanding that my stats provide absolute equal comparisons, while yours don't have to....You just submarined your own argument here on stats...If mine are "not truly valid" due to different ways that our countries compile numbers, which I stated in my post, and even used a fact checking site that I believe to be biased to the left of pro gun, than yours are just as invalid...And your source is Wiki? Are you serious? :lamo