A couple months back a neighboring community had a recreational event (camping, hunting fishing boating, atv’s etc) consisting of commercial exhibits. I visited with folks from South Africa, one of British, another of Dutch decent, pedaling African safaris.
I questioned both of the violence in SA. Both denied it. The Dutch fellow came back at me and said since he’d been in the US promoting his business, that he knew for fact there was more violence in the US than SA.
We chose the far north Canadian fishing trip. I’d feel safer around bear, moose and the other fun animals up there.
the Dutch fellow was misinformed. a quick check of the latest data on murder rates shows:
2012 US murder rate = 4.7 (per 100,000 people)
2012 South Africa murder rate = 31.0 (per 100,000 people)
i can’t imagine that looking up the data on assaults or rapes will yield much different comparative results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
That guy must live in a good part. I saw home security cam video a few weeks back of some folks getting robbed.
I noticed that the couple were already sleeping with their guns. Evidently, many of them do that.