In my area where there is only a tiny police presence and a great majority of households are armed, we see nearly no violent crime.  We have a ton of meth-heads and kids running around looking for targets of opportunity to steal from (e.g., people on vacation, at church, etc) but it's unusual to have a confrontational robbery and it's usually and accident on the part of the perp when it does happen.  The net impact of property crime in my area is that neighbors get to know one another and look out for one another.  That makes for a more enjoyable life generally in my experience.

In my area a vast majority of the creepy murders and what-not are tweaker-on-tweaker crime (not many ethnic minorities here.)  These people generally cannot legally own firearms but of course that doesn't stop them.  And they do one another in with a hammer half the time anyway.  The benefit of being an atheist rather than a Christian is that I don't have to feel bad when some semi-homeless addict gets high and bashes his friend's head in then stuffs his body in a dumpster around the corner.  And in truth it really doesn't bother me that much.

In contrast to the Bay Area where I lived off and on for a decade and a half, and which has very strict gun control laws making a criminal feel safe that he wasn't going to get his ass shot by the would-be victim, there were a lot more problems with confrontational crime.  Of course the population density was a lot higher so it's apples-n-oranges to a degree,  Whatever the case, I like life vastly better in the place where law abiding citizens can protect themselves without a lot of government interference.