Yeah, my point is that my door is unlocked and we have essentially no crime. Violent crime makes the national news, here, and usually doesn't involve firearms.

The black neighborhoods here are safer than many white neighborhoods over there because the overall culture is more peaceful. Black men are much much safer in Germany than in the US and we have literal Nazis here. Furthermore, the black neighborhoods over there also used to be more peaceful.

A lot of the American need for personal protection is due to the higher overall level of violence, which the gigantic prison landscape doesn't really change. It's a chicken-egg problem.