Quote: DaButt @ 25th June 2015, 11:10 AM BSTI understand, but if you live in Tinytowne, UK, where there hasn't been a murder in 40 years and there's a shooting every minute 300 miles away in Upper Gangland, you'd probably want to provide clarification if someone called the UK a murderous death trap.
I'm not calling the US a murderous death trap, I'm just saying an average has to take into account everything, which is why your clarification is misleading when you decide to talk about the 'average American' and assume it's someone like you. Why not a cop, who are killed at a rate of one a week? Or the family of the 2 people shot dead per day by those cops? Well they aren't even in the figures, are they, because they weren't officially murdered.
Clearly the true average American lives in a country with far more gun-related problems than the UK.