[ProudFossil]

I would question these stats. I went to another site: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita&date=2006 which lists murder rates by country. Their stats are for 2006. They list Turkey as the most deadly with only 18.4 per 100,000, way below what this one has for the most deadly. Also This one has no European country in it except for Russia. I found one other list which had Greenland for 2006 at 19.2 the same as this list. Something does not compute.

To continue I found a site dealing specifically with Venezuela. This list has it's rate around 45.1, the other site, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9769897/Venezuela-murder-rate-soars.html lists it just for Caracas at over 200 per 100,000.

Again there seems to be something not quite Kosher in this.

I am not trying to pooh-pooh the premise given by the article as I fully believe the Dims and Libs are trying to go to Socialism any way they can. But I do believe we should argue with sustainable and correct facts, not smoke and mirrors.

[ProudFossil]

From another site: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/11/13/caracas-soaring-murder-rate-set-to-surpass-last-year-numbers/ there is this statement:

While not as bad as Honduras’ 88 murders per 100,000, it makes the drug war plagued Mexico look almost tame with its 15 per 100,000 rate. The United States averages about 4.8 murder per 100,000, according to recent United Nations statistics.

These stats seem more realistic. They do tend to support the premise of the article.