Ohio: Buckeyes for Concealed Carry President Uses Handgun to Defend Family

[DanTex]

193. Not necessarily.

It would be interesting to look at attempted murder, but I don't think those statistics exist. UCR doesn't have them even for the US. Besides, even if you did get data, this is the kind of thing that would be highly sensitive to different legal systems, based on what the standard is for proving that someone intended to kill someone else.

But I don't think it's necessary. Most murders, in the US at least, probably wouldn't qualify as "attempted murder". If I am robbing you and you make a move and I shoot you, if you die it's murder, but if you don't die that's not attempted murder. If we get into an argument and I pull a gun and shoot you, same thing.

So looking at robbery and assault rates should give you a pretty good idea. Of course, here again there is the problem of different countries defining assault in different ways. Still, here is data I found for a few countries:
US
Robbery 115.3 Assault 250.9 Homicide 4.2
UK
Robbery 137.9 Assault 664.4 Homicide 1.2
Canada
Robbery 89.4 Assault 161 Homicide 1.6
Germany
Robbery 58.5 Assault 626.8 Homicide 0.8
France
Robbery 180.6 Assault 309.7 Homicide 1.1

As you can see, the US has not just the highest homicide rate, but also the highest ratio of Homicide/Assault and Homicide/Robbery. Interestingly, Canada has a relatively high homicide rate and also a relatively high gun homicide rate, which is at least partially explained by its proximity to the US: most handguns used in crimes in Canada come from the US.