While that's true - in fact you are if anything downplaying the UKs lack of free speech, as people are convicted for far less - it's not very germane to the UK

While that's true - in fact you are if anything downplaying the UKs lack of free speech, as people are convicted for far less - it's not very germane to the UK having lower homicide rates. I feel like most of us want to live in societies with freedom of speech and low homicide rates, and don't feel it has to be one or the other.