[Tarantulas]

The nightly news lists the litany of woe and murderous rampages that are savaging our land. "Four dead in Dallas," "Four dead in Atlanta," "Ten dead in Minnesota," "Nine year old girl strangled in Florida" and on and on the headlines churn out the grisly details of America's illicit love affair with death.

This should go on a "The Sky Is Falling" ping list.

[AmericaUnited]

This should go on a "The Sky Is Falling" ping list.

Oh really?! And why is that? Go ahead and mock, it just shows you're ignorance. Here's a graph showing murder rates per/100k citizens of different countries. Notice the USA has a 'problem'. Yes, the sky is falling.

Responding Country	Total homicides 1986	Total homicides 1987	Total homicides 1988	Total homicides 1989	Total homicides 1990	1989 Population	1989 Homicide Rate/100k Pop	1989 Incarceration Rate/100k
CYPRUS	9	4	11	8	12	695000	1.2	30
ENGLAND&WALES	661	688	624	641	669	50562000	1.3	78
REP.OFKOREA	565	562	539	540	633	42380176	1.3	112
JAPAN	2307	2180	2087	1857	1885	123000000	1.5	34
SPAIN	858	613	536	634	636	38888252	1.6	82
CHINA	11510	13154	15959	19590	23199	1.12E+09	1.7	103
MALAYSIA	386	362	346	322	313	17353000	1.9	110
SCOTLAND	89	103	354	104	87	5091000	2.0	77
PERU	480	595	472	490	1289	21112598	2.3	72
NORWAY	53	65	95	110	128	4226901	2.6	57
MAURITIUS	34	29	25	28	26	1063859	2.6	15
SINGAPORE	71	54	58	71	48	2685400	2.6	133
AUSTRIA	242	198	182	215	236	7617779	2.8	243
MALTA	6	2	1	10	10	350722	2.9	134
GREECE	197	197	238	295	260	10033000	2.9	55
HUNGARY	490	459	423	346	347	10398261	3.3	75
BULGARIA	337	316	338	351	368	8989476	3.9	95
FED.REP.GERMANY	3322	3220	3129	3021	2995	61989800	4.9	85
DENMARK	343	336	310	280	242	5132594	5.5	65
ROMANIA	1574	1289	2134	1267	2489	23151564	5.5	134
CANADA	1449	1558	1410	1487	1561	26240300	5.7	115
ITALY	2790	3022	3169	3849	4179	57540560	6.7	40
PORTUGAL	744	854	865	711	725	9883400	7.2	94
US				22,909		247498000	9.3	435
RUSSIANREPUBLC	10566	10277	11614	14703	16760	147720500	10.0	167

[Conservative til I die]

Why? Do you disagree that America has steadily embraced the Culture of Death long-embraced by Western Europe?