The 5x increase is per 100,000, so it is a crime RATE not absolute crime. It accounts for differing population.

Quote Originally Posted by bharner View Post
Straightrazorheaven,

Your info is a 5x higher gun crime in the US than the UK. Am I correct in the population of the USA being close to 5x the population of the UK? 310ish million to 63ish million?
Which means it's about par. And if the USA and UK have equal percentages of gun crime while the USA has almost 100 million guns in circulation ...

I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this. It's almost 2am and I'm sleepy.