re: #140 ryannon

No, seriously. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we just turned inward, forgot about it, and started taking care of our own problems: hundreds of thousand homicides in our country since 9-11! What does that tell you about the U.S? It tells me that if you divide 150,000 murders by ten you get something like 15,000 per year in a country with a population of 250 thousand. Compared to, say, proportional stats for other countries, or even the number of deaths on U.S. highways per year?

Homicide rate by country (most recent data)
en.wikipedia.org

U.S. - 5.40

Israel - 1.87
France - 1.60
Germany - 0.86
United Kingdom - 1.49
Spain - 1.20
Portugal - 1.26
Italy - 1.06
Japan - 0.44
South Korea - 2.18