Exactly my point. If you put all the factors in, guns are not nearly as significant. Culture and history become much more significant. The areas in the US that have the high murder rates typically do have strict gun control. In fact most of the US have similar rates to that of Europe.
Yep. Let's face it, one can make statistics show just about any conclusion one wants to obtain. Just change the samples, factors, wording, and assumptions. I can easily find statistics that show gun deaths and crime go *up* when tighter gun controls are enactacted.
The USA is far, far, far less homogeneous than most western European countries in just about every way- race, religion, background, ethnicity, economic, education, values, etc. Increased diversity = more crime. Increased freedom usually = more crime. Neither increased diversity nor freedom is a bad thing. Freedom does ALWAYS come at a price.
The countries you want to compare to the US are MUCH older and have little or no history of slavery and racism.
As far as I know, just about every country has a history of slavery and racism.... that is, if they contained humans.