I don't want to jack this thread --- so I'll keep this simple.
In response to the "government should do something" statement.
The US murder rate is 4.2 PER 100,000 in population.... We have a very large population so while the rate is low -- the math is high... making it seem like we have an overabundance of these kinds of events.
By contrast -- a favorite east coast vacation spot -- the Bahamas -- has a murder rate of 27.4 per 100,000.... Jamaica's is 52.2 per 100,000... Mexico's is 16.9 per 100,000
Yet we LOVE to go on vacations to these murderous places. Go figure.
The rate of civilian gun ownership in Mexico is 15 per 100 people -- in the USA it's 90 per 100 people.... but Mexico's murder rate is 4 times the rate of the USA. Must be something in the water down there. Jamaica has 8.1 per 100 civilian gun ownership... but their murder rate is 12 times that of the USA.
Last edited by GregWeld; 12-15-2012 at 05:23 PM.
|