&gt; the US was created by Europeans, and mostly consists to this day of people of European descent<p>Yes, but the statistics for violent crime in the US break down in interesting ways once you start looking at &quot;genetic source&quot;, whatever that is.  There is lots of discussion as to the _why_, of course<p>&quot;Hispanics&quot; in the US includes people of nearly pure European descent, nearly pure Amerindian descent, mixes of the two, etc.  It&#x27;s a pretty useless demographic category, really.