UK vs US, violent crime meme [View all]

[DreWId]

So a new photo on Facebook, liked by one of my conservative friends, says that the UK has 6x more violence or something like that and ends with "guess which country bans guns?"

There is no citation of the numbers, no source to public data, therefore the picture is nothing more than a meme. I'm not going to post it here because everything that I said so far is pretty much all the picture said, only with pretty flags on the meme.


So my question is, does anyone have the equitable numbers of violent crimes for 2010, 2011, or possibly 2012 for the UK and the US?

I thought I had the numbers, but I wasn't sure if 'violent crime' was meaning the same for both statistics (I got numbers from the BBC and the FBI). I tried again but was only finding "per 1,000 capita" in the UK and "per 100,000 capita" in the US.



I will completely believe and accept that the UK may have a higher violent crime rate than the US, but I'm not going to make an assertion either way until I see the numbers, raw and per capita hopefully, for both countries.

Any help?