" Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's homicide rate fell to a three-decade low last year...Police recorded 548 murders, or 1.73 for every of 100,000 Canada's 31.6 million inhabitants, down from 582, or a rate of 1.86, in 2002, Statistics Canada said in Ottawa.

And here's a site with stuff about how various countries compare on murder rates (and other things too).   You'll note that, among the countries where the murder rate is way below the Bush voting counties, are such places as the UK, the various Scandinavian countries, France and Germany. Even the Former Indonesian Republic of Macedonia scores a lower murder rate...