https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...i-increase
""The net increase in murders, which follows a two-decade downward trend, erased the gains of the past few years, and put the number of murders back at 15,696, about the same number as in 2009. Murder and violent crime are still dramatically lower than they were at the peak of the violent crime wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The national murder rate last year was about half what it was in 1991. ""
wait wait wait wait wait!! Am I reading this right?! 15 thousand people are murdered every year in the US?!
That's 4.88 per 100,000 people!
Compare that to... say.... Portugal!
100 murders per year, or 0.97 per 100,000 people.
That's still too many.... we do have a few nutjobs, too.. I guess they're everywhere... but hey... at least they don't have easy access to guns, so the end result is a clear 20% of the US's fear of other people.
That makes my life oh so much less stressful. 80% less.
Quality of life, that is... quality of life! I keep telling you good folk, come on over to one of the truly great countries in the world!
""The net increase in murders, which follows a two-decade downward trend, erased the gains of the past few years, and put the number of murders back at 15,696, about the same number as in 2009. Murder and violent crime are still dramatically lower than they were at the peak of the violent crime wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The national murder rate last year was about half what it was in 1991. ""
wait wait wait wait wait!! Am I reading this right?! 15 thousand people are murdered every year in the US?!
That's 4.88 per 100,000 people!
Compare that to... say.... Portugal!
100 murders per year, or 0.97 per 100,000 people.
That's still too many.... we do have a few nutjobs, too.. I guess they're everywhere... but hey... at least they don't have easy access to guns, so the end result is a clear 20% of the US's fear of other people.
That makes my life oh so much less stressful. 80% less.
Quality of life, that is... quality of life! I keep telling you good folk, come on over to one of the truly great countries in the world!
