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To: Sea Parrot

You are correct.

But in 2006 they were not in the top 37 countries as far as murder rate. (from the statistics I found)

I like the spunk of the Hondurans who stood up to Obozo. They obeyed their constitution in removing Mel Zelaya from the office of President of Honduras, under the terms of their constitution.


7 posted on 10/16/2011 10:06:55 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

Now I see what happened. The statistics you posted are per 1M, not per 100K, the more usual method. You have to multiply by 10.

On that basis, the Honduras murder rate in 2006 was 462, about 2.5 times that of Turkey in your stats.

http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/features/saii/newsbriefs/2010/04/01/newsbrief-06

I think our attempted but luckily somewhat ineffectual interference in Honduras was shameful, but it doesn’t really explain everything going on there. One stat I ran across showed the Honduras murder rate in 1999 as 1540/M. Somewhat effective attacks on the drug gangs in Mexico and Colombia means they’ve moved much of their operation to Central America. Crime has gone up in all of these countries, which are much smaller and have fewer resources to fight back than Mexico or Colombia.

I also find it ignorant and short-sighted to blame the crime and murder rate on FnF. Doing so says the Cause of the crime is the availability or presence of guns. This is the argument of every gun control advocate since time began. It says the crime in Honduras, Mexico, etc. is caused by inadequate gun control.

Is that really the argument you want to make? Extrapolating it to the USA means our “gun crime” is also the result of inadequate gun control, which if implemented would stop the crimes.


11 posted on 10/17/2011 2:39:10 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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