Ah! In that case I can answer your question: I don't think Europe has less violence than the US. I haven't travelled that much, and I haven't read much on the topic, so I may be wrong, but wouldn't you say that a lot of the violence that goes on in Eastern and Southern European countries rivals that of the US?
Haha, yeah, I think of myself as civilized
I'm actually from Portugal (yeah, sorry about all that...). And thank you; it looks like a really nice forum.