I've seen this a few times and don't have the bandwidth to do the research, but it sounds plausible. It's possible that the actual rankings might be not be precise, but the point still remains.
"The US is third of murders throughout the world.
If you remove
Chicago, Detroit, DC, St Louis, and New Orleans
That drops to 189th out of 193 countries.
As I said, even if the drop is from third to 100th, that's still significant. Especially given the strict gun control laws in those cities.
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I've seen those stats, too. The one caveat is in apples to apples comparison of what remains after their removal. That is, without those big cities, how do cities remaining compare to those of other countries? But, I guess that requires the deep dive into the source of those stats. John Lott has done yeoman's work on disseminating that info, and I suspect he's not the only one. By his work alone, we see that those stats can be regarded as accurate enough to heed as factual.
That's what I thought. If the number, without those cities, is lower that 100 the point is still valid.
I've read that Americans of European ancestry are no more violent than their European cousins, and ditto African Americans, who commit no more violent crimes per capita than their sub-Saharan cousins.
It's just that the U.S. crime rate is higher than Europe's because we have a greater percentage of ethnic Africans -- and I say this offering no speculation as to why, culture vs genetics vs both. Some Leftists may actually know this, but they blame the guns because they want to disarm the citizenry.
Bubba,
I saw something years ago that speculated that all societies are relatively equally violent, but that the violence was expressed differently in different societies. Some had high murder rates, some high suicide rates.
In the case of the US, I think we can't ignore the fact that a relatively small percentage of the population commits a disproportionately large percentage of crimes. Especially in committing multiple crimes per person, and because of the revolving door of the prison system.
It'll be interesting to see how the current situation on Europe where we see massive increases in rapes and sexual assaults that are almost entirely traceable to one demographic group.
Obviously focusing on tools, rather than those who wield the tools, is a winning strategy. Unfortunately, it's not particularly effective. Especially when the focus is on a particular tool which is used in a tiny number of actual crimes.
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