Even with our drug gang problems, the US rates 83rd in murders per capita or 107th depending on the organization's source material:
https://www.indexmundi.com/fac...IHR.PSRC.P5/rankings
https://www.pri.org/stories/20...highest-murder-rates
It might also be noted that “not all high homicide areas are associated with a high prevalence of firearm homicide.”---https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/map-here-are-countries-worlds-highest-murder-rates