Our numbers are still huge compared to other rich countries.
Yes.... our cultures are completely different which you never understand. Europe and Asia suffered massive population loss and massive societal desruction because of World War 2..... they lost 12 million innocent men, women and children, unarmed by the way, to the socialists, and they weren't war dead, they were simply murdered. It has taken a long time for their culture to recover from that destruction. It is now catching up with the United States. Their social welfare systems have finally managed to reach the point where single teenage girls can have male children without fathers to the point they are turning out violent sociopaths......just like Americans in democrat cities where the out of wedlock birth rate is over 75%......
That is why we have always had more murder than they have had, and now as our violent crime rates go down, theirs are now going up...even gun violence after they banned and confiscated guns.
They had a low gun murder rate before they banned and confiscated guns...that hasn't changed....our knife murder rate is higher than their total murder rate......and yet their violent crime rate is going up while ours is going down, as more Americans own and carry guns.