That's a pretty textbook example of cherry-picked data. Why did they look at "gun murders per capita" specifically instead of just "murders per capita"? I don'

That's a pretty textbook example of cherry-picked data. Why did they look at "gun murders per capita" specifically instead of just "murders per capita"? I don't know about you but I don't particularly care about how I get murdered just if I get murdered. If you look instead at murders per capita the US is still very high at 4.88 vs. the UK's 0.92 but clearly not "30 times higher" either.