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To: Brad from Tennessee

Worth noting in all such statistics that homicides are not necessarily murders.

person killing person = homicide

Killing a rapist in an act of self-defense is still a homicide.

Homicide + illegal intent = murder


13 posted on 01/31/2013 9:40:24 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

It would be very instructive to have stats breaking down the 11,101 homicides into self-defense versus murder, then how many of the “murders” were criminals killing each other. CDC/gov’t is unlikely to reveal this directly, but I wonder if something can be deduced from DOJ/FBI crime stats.


32 posted on 01/31/2013 11:03:36 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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