And if you're gonna start throwing statistics around then here's a couple.
"The US homicide rate, which has declined substantially since 1991 from a rate per 100,000 persons of 9.8 to 4.8 in 2010, is still among the highest in the industrialized world. There were 14,748 homicides in the United States in 2010, including non-negligent manslaughter."
And I don't know where you got your stats from but from the
http://www.unodc.org/
The UK's homocide rate is 1.4 actually lower than France which is 1.6.