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Bull**** on Anti-Americanism & The World
***Headers trimmed - stop being assholes.*** On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:23:13 GMT, Gunner wrote: On 20 Jun 2005 09:11:16 -0700, "gobkk" wrote: Thou shall not attend any gun fight, with a weapon that has a caliber that begins the Number smaller than .4 U.S. is No. 1 -- in Murder, Rape, Robbery: No other nation comes close, congressional report shows The United States is "the most violent and self-destructive nation on earth," a congressional report said Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee report depicted Americans killing, raping and robbing one another at a furious rate, surpassing every other country that keeps crime statistics. Seems the experts disagree with your blog. http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/Crime http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/homicide.htm#murd http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...01/ixhome.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2639777.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/740256.stm http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon...TUDY/02513.xml Need more, ****wit? Actually, I do. The first link shows the US stats in overall crime numbers (and it don't look good - we have more rapes than any nation on Earth in raw numbers), but when you look at per capita in any category, the US is removed from the list. Why is that? The second link shows that the US has a lower murder rate than South Africa and the crime-riddled post-communist block. The other listed countries show murder rates half that of the US. This is not an AMERICA - **** YEAK! web page. It shows an embarrassingly high murder rate, for which we have no excuse other than "Well, Russia is worse than us!". The third link is vague in its interpretation of "crime" in England and Wales. I've been to both places and consider them far more lawful than any state in the US. By "crime", I would guess they include all petty theft and drug busts (theft seems to be the #1 crime in England AFAICS), neither of which are relevant to the original poster's claim that America leads the world in *violent* crime. The fourth link is a silly non-sequitor. The population of Vatican City is under 1000. A few fights here and there will cause a huge swing in statistics, so this link can be safely ignored. Nice try, tho. The fifth link is 5 years old and claims a 7% drop in the US crime rate, but this "success" is betrayed by the awful stats in the first link, most of which are also circa 1999-2000. The sixth link is 9 years old and is an exhaustive database of American crime statistics, with no correlation to trends internationally. I'm afraid your defense of the US crime rate compared to the rest of the world has done little more than confirm the primary observation that, compared to other civilized nations, America is a vastly more brutal, violent and murderous country. To make matters worse, Gunner's inadequate defense of the US makes us look stupid, as well. But then I guess the " stupid" explains all the rest doesn't it? - TR |
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