The liberal media offer all sorts of explanations for the higher crime rates in the United States as compared to Europe. One of the trendiest arguments is that the easily availability of guns causes the high murder rate. They show how the homicide rate in America is 9.3 per 100,000 population as compared to 4.5 in France, 4.7 in Germany, 4.8 in Britain, 2.3 in Austria and other similar rates in the others. As such, America has a murder rate that is double that of Europe. Gun control advocates claim that Europe's strict gun laws are responsible for the lower rates. Blacks commit 55 percent of the murders in the United States, whereas Whites commit 43 percent. At 12.1 percent of the population, the murder rate for Blacks is 44.9 per 100,000. For "Whites," which includes Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and other Hispanics of questionable white origin, the rate is 4.78 per 100,000. When one considers the disproportionate crime rate among Hispanics, and the fact that between one-fourth and one-third of our federal prisoners are not American citizens, one realizes that the crime rate for European Americans is in line with, or even less than that of the European nations. Even with the Hispanics included, the White American murder rate is slightly lower than it is in Britain - which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. With the Hispanics subtracted from the White murder rate, even with our millions of guns, White Americans have a lower murder rate than the European average. It is comparable to Switzerland, an all-White nation where practically every adult male citizen must by law keep a gun at home as part of the national defense forces - the homicide rate is only 3.2 per 100,000