Top line is US Virgin Islands homicide rate over 25 years.
Bottom line is average United States homicide rate over 25 years.
Posted on 10/31/2024 5:14:32 AM PDT by marktwain
The United States Virgin Islands exists as a United States territory. As an entity that is not a state, it has higher rates of homicide than any state. The homicide rates for the US Virgin Islands are about 7.8 times as high as the average homicide rate for the United States. It has one of the highest illegal homicide rates in the world.
The US Virgin Islands has extremely strict gun laws. A permit and waiting periods accompany all firearm transactions. Once in a person’s possession, it is almost always illegal to carry that firearm in public either openly or concealed, and as of this writing, there are no good, governmental sources for even begging a firearms permit application. Calling a local attorney for guidance will be a must given the long sentences the territorial laws have for violating its opaque firearms laws.
The territory is about 12.9% of the size of Rhode Island, with about 7.9% of the population of Rhode Island.
The United States Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 during the First World War. An act of Congress gave U.S. citizenship to the inhabitants in 1927. The Danish legal code of the islands was retained. In 1970, self-government took effect, and a governor and lieutenant governor were elected for four-year terms. The Senate of the U.S. Virgin Islands consists of seven elected from St. Croix, seven from the district of St Thomas and St. John,
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Top line is US Virgin Islands homicide rate over 25 years.
Bottom line is average United States homicide rate over 25 years.
How could this be?
Democarps tell me that their gun control measures always fail because of the states next to them have all the guns and criminals go next door to get them.
But the Virgin Islands... are islands. Surrounded by water, not other states.
Hmm. This is a mystery. Are the homocides done with bricks? Maybe a sock filled with loose change? What is going on here?
Well, it proves one thing....gun laws DON’T WORK
Maybe a lot of stabbings ?
Legal restrictions on guns are good at stopping people from legally owning guns. They have little or no effect on preventing criminals from accessing guns.
People who are willing to commit murder are a tiny percentage of a population. Thus, only a tiny number of illegally owned guns are sufficient to meet the criminal demand.
A knowledgeable source who lived in the Virgin Islands for several years told me it is the most corrupt jurisdiction in the United States.
Yet, the British Virgin Islands which are literally less than three miles away have a murder rate which is SIX times less.
8.3 per 100K vs. 50 per 100K.
What is the difference?
In the BVIs the typical murder is some wife/husband killing their spouse. It is a vey safe country to visit.
“begging a firearms permit application”
A fact lefties can't come to grips with. Everytime we have a murder or shooting in Albany NY the perp was using a stolen gun, typically from the South.
The British Virgin Islands are a British territory, with the governor appointed by the British Monarch. The assembly is elected locally. It has a constitution which went into effect in 2007.
I have been to the Caribbean several times to various islands.
The locals all say the same thing. The reason why the USVI and Puerto Rico have problems is that they are the only place in the Caribbean where you can go on WELFARE.
EVERYWHERE else IF you want to eat, you have to work.
Therefore, all the LAZY slugs move to the US islands.
Almost everyone I met on three different trips to the BYIs was wealthy. They could make a lot of money IF they were willing to work. That is because they were not lazy.
If you are not willing to work you can get by. I saw people too that owned water front houses that could have made a lot of money IF they just rented beach chairs and sold water. But they were lazy. The people who owned the house next door had become multi millionaires from the tourist industry.
Yes, you are correct. Generally, I have found the former British colonies are better than the French/Dutch/Spanish.
Although I have never been to St Barts because it is too expensive.
Yet, Jamaica is one of the most screwed up islands and it is/was British.
The Caymans is the richest per capita island because of off shore banking. It is also the island where the seasonal help makes the most money. I was there about twenty years ago. Almost everyone working there was Canadian because the Cayman dollar was 2X the Loonie.
https://www.cayman.com.ky/business/offshore-company/legal-requirements/
All businesses operating in the Caymans must now be at least 60% owned by Cayman Islanders. I know this because an local dive operation recently had to sell-out after 3 decades of (American) ownership. Needless to say, the former owners didn’t get fair-market price. This is the kind of law that prevails in a lot of the Caribbean. It’s also a likely leading indicator that the Cayman Islands that we all were familiar with will be rapidly changing — and likely getting poorer for it.
Nice collection.
Can you imagine trying to poke a guy in the head at the ATM with one of those?
XD... Dammit, now just hold still a minute...
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