""The homicide rate runs between 80-90 per 100,000 population annually. The homicide rate for every body else in the US is down in the 1.5 - 3
per 100,000 population, annually. Which is right about where it is for the UK and other "Western/First World" countries.""

Wrong again.

The rate in the UK is 0.41 per 100,000, between one third and one sixth of your lowest.

Don T.