Well they are certainly behind most of Europe because they were in the Soviet Union. By country standards they are quite new, making them inherently less stable. Looks like their homicide rate is still under the US. They also have a gun ownership rate of 13.6, much higher than Poland.
The USA might NOW be the mass shootings capital thanks to people here like Bowers, Paddock, Roof & "others"
However, this wasn't the case until recently.
The biggest mass shootings capital of the 20th century WAS called Northern Ireland, it had a ton of mass shootings between Ulster Protestants & Irish Catholics.
Ever hear of Bloody Sunday? It was carried out by Irish Ulster Protestants against Irish Catholics.
The USA is NO WHERE as close as Northern Ireland had been in mass shootings, DESPITE LESS GUNS.
Now, to raise an interesting point, Irish Americans make up about 11% of Americans, and about 2/3rds of them are Ulster Protestants.
So, is it really a coincidence, that they have brought their mass shootings to the USA?????
Now, enough of my point.
Onto your point.
So, Lithuania has less guns & more murder & more suicide than the rest of Eastern Europeans because of the Soviet Union?
As if that makes sense.
YES, it seems that actually ethnic Russians probably are at the same rate, if not slightly lower than Lithuania in murder, BECAUSE Russia's Siberia & also Russia's Muslim migrants up the murder rates signfiicantly.
Austria & Switzerland have Europe's lowest murder rates & also some of the highest gun ownership rates on the continent.
Scotland has the highest murder rates in Western Europe & also the lowest gun ownership rates on the Western part of the continent.
Why, why, why, why, why?
Are you going to suggest that Scotland is somehow far different in any aspect vs Austria, or Switzerland?