RE: 2013 on track to have lowest murder rate in a Century
June 17, 2013 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2013 at 4:25 pm by orogenicman.)
Before we give ourselves a pat on the back, I need to remind you folks that although the murder rate is declining - and that is always a good thing - we still have a very high murder rate compared to many other industrialized countries. In 2010 there were 16,259 homicides in the U.S. - 11,078 of those were committed with firearms.
We've still got a lot of work to do to put a dent in our homicide rate, regardless of the recent declines.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
We've still got a lot of work to do to put a dent in our homicide rate, regardless of the recent declines.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
