Roudy
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Yip, you go right ahead and compare CRIME STATS, to ISLAMIC TERRORISM, which is increasing in frequency and barbarism. Talking points of the looney tunes left often repeated by Democrat leaders and their puppets in the media.LOL...sixth Islamic terrorist event in a period of less than 30 days, and this idiot wants us to look at charts and compare homicide statistics.You have thrown a lot of crap into your statement and you have provided no citations....But again, the murder rate in Germany is far lower than the US. Less people die, people are safer.
The pro-gun crowd seem to think that having guns is going to save them from attacks. Really? I mean, the US has seen these sorts of attacks and sees similar numbers of people being killed, doesn't it? Cops with guns are being killed. 5 armed cops killed in one place doesn't exactly show that guns are able to stop things happening immediately.
It does show that in the US you are far more likely to die from guns.
I've tried to look some of it up but found it's not easy to do.
Thus your rant is mostly hear-say gossip.
I did find a website on murder rates. The data are old though:
Countries Compared by Crime > Violent crime > Murder rate. International Statistics at NationMaster.com
Brazil has the highest murder rate. Brazil has similar gun laws as California except their minimum age is 25.
India is second in the list. But in India it is almost impossible to own a gun.
Mexico is third on the list. Mexico is also similar to California in its gun laws.
Ethiopia is fourth. Like India, gun ownership is extremely low although the murder rate is extremely high.
So your theory of correlation between guns and murder rates is unsound right out of the box.
The USA is 14th on the list for murder rates. Gun ownership varies from 20% in California to 61% in Alaska.
Germany is 73rd on the list, behind the UK at 71st, and ahead of all the other European nations.
So with the tightest gun control of all Europe, Germany still has the highest murder rate.
Ergo if you are going to do a comparison, try to avoid red herring comparisons.
Q.E.D.
To reply to the latter part.
You're taking number of murders. Not murders per capita. This is wrong to do so. Brazil is a large country. Germany is a larger country than many. Per capita shows you how dangerous a country is. I mean, if the Vatican city has a murder a day, and Brazil has 10 murders a day, the Vatican is more dangerous.
Looking at your chart with murders per million, you see Honduras leaps ahead of all others. Cape Town is the only city in the top 40 of murder capitals of the world right now.
The US on your chart is 99th in the world. Very few of those countries above them will be developed countries.
The US has 42.01 (which is basically 4.2 on the per 100,000 which is the usual way of expressing it).
Luxembourg and Finland are close by, but at 22 and 24 (though Luxembourg has lots of foreigners so their murder rate is actually too high in reality, because they count citizens then murder, but half the country doesn't get counted)
The UK is 157th in the world at 11.68 and Germany is 177th with 8.44
So based on this the murder rate is much lower. These were 2010 based whereas the other figures are more recent I believe.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.![]()
Yeah you just go ahead and pretend it's all some mental disorder.
The US has 35 people die every day. Germany has 9 people die in a day and "OH MY GOD WE HAVE TO GET ANGRY AT MUSLIMS"
You need some perspective here.
And you wonder why liberalism is considered a form of mental illness?
Stick your head back in there.
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