Jan 26th 2013, 0:37:38
Originally posted by locket:
The only stats on anything involving murder that I found on a site that seemed legit and without a goal to manipulate you one way or the other definitely showed the USA with much higher rates than GB/Canada/Western world. Pointless argument anyways though.
Nobody has denied the USA having a higher murder rate, I even conceded that, because it is true. I dont think that anybody on this forum would argue that if drug laws were loosened or legalized those murder rates would drop, especially in the cities.
As for my stats I found them from
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/...s-most-violent-crime.html
this was sourced as UN/EU commission data. Figured they were legit numbers.
the findings were back up with this, not exactly the same numbers but the same outcomes. http://www.civitas.org.uk/...ime_stats_oecdjan2012.pdf
also supported by the following
http://www.nationmaster.com/...u_off-crime-drug-offences
while all of those sources compare data from different years, they all yield the same conclusion, that while the USA does have more deaths as a result of gun, they have much lower overall violent crime rate than its peers.
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