World Murder Statistcs

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[muawiyah]

But, however you are going to be killed, in the United States a person of predominantly Russian ancestry is less likely to be killed by a fellow Russian than he would be in Russia!

At the same time, a person of predominantly Russian ancestry here is simply less likely to murder someone here than is a Russian in Russia.

Of you want to broaden the range, whites are less murderous here than they are in Europe as a whole, and blacks are less murderous here than they are in Africa as a whole (and, unless somebody can find a place with a lower murder rate than the US, I think we can say that about each and every country in Africa).

[cunning_fish]

You are probably right. I haven’t studied that deeply but it is very likely if an enviroment makes one more or less violent.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Doesn’t that imply that all those murders were with firearms, when in fact they were not?

I don’t know - but if so, what of it?

Is murder OK unless committed with a repeating firearm?

You’re fine with being dismembered with a machete or necklaced - just as long as they don’t shoot you?