The gun homicide rate for LA in 2011 was... hold onto your hats... 10.16
The gun CRIME rate in London is apparently 4.4. However in a city of 8.1 MILLION only 29 people were murdered with guns.
http://www.standard.co.uk/...
Louisiana has about half the population and 385 gun homicides per year:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/...
Doing a bit of quick math and rounding here and there we get that the State of Louisiana has a gun murder rate 30x that of Europe's BIGGEST city.
Louisiana ALSO has the 13th highest gun ownership rate in America (44%):
http://usliberals.about.com/...