> Though it’s almost impossible to substantiate the statistics, aid organizations estimate that at least 12,000 Albanians have been murdered for blood in the last twenty-five years.
This is approximately the annual number of gun deaths in the USA.
So we could ignore other homicide weapons and say yes, this is equivalent to 48000 Americans a year.
Considering that US gun violence has fallen by about 50% since the 90s [1], I'd say this is equivalent to about 3-4x the US rate over the same period. It's a lot but not some murderous wasteland.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/03/weve-...
Not to mention that all land became state property about 60 years ago and in early 1990's was distributed to others. Needless to say original owners were not happy.
Today Albania is much safer than NYC, deaths are in most cases targeted (crime groups that go back and forth)