Is the US really a crime ridden slaughterhouse?

[Tgace]

...lies...damn lies....and

http://www.ncgunblog.com/2014/03/18/us-really-crime-ridden-slaughterhouse/

We hear it all the time. “The US has the highest gun murder rate of any industrialized western country not at war.” Or in the case that Weer’d dug up,the “highest gun murder rate in the ‘developed’ world.” What does that mean, anyway?

..read the rest.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Very interesting read!

 

[Takai]

Intriguing.

 

[billc]

I like this little point...

What’s going on is that the gun haters cherry pick the countries that they want to compare the US to. They don’t look at the whole world, but just a tiny subset. They ignore the very real problem that other countries do not collect homicide data in the same way as we do in the US. Our rule is “dead body that isn’t clearly suicide or accident = homicide.” In the UK, it’s not a murder until someone gets convicted. (Seriously, read this and see how different the UK statistics are from reality)

 

[Makalakumu]

I posted a study a while ago that basically shows that if you pull out the dozen or so cities where most of the crime is occurring, the United States is safer than Denmark.

On the other hand, we really do have some hellholes of crime. Detroit is worse than many third world countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Washington DC is the not very nice as well. Apparently, all of the criminals go there to join the government.