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I'm going to make an educated guess at two big reasons as to why the US has a much higher murder rate compared to other wealthy nations: guns and income inequality.
in both sf and houston is pretty well demarcated areas that are more affluent and the poor areas. most of them were probably near the tenderloin area too.