On 1/23/2020 10:03 AM, AMuzi wrote:

"America is one of the most violent societies on the planet"

Your premise is greatly overstated. US rate is lower than Greenland for
example:
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/ind...RC.P5/rankings

Lower? Looks like a tie, 5.30 to 5.30, at least to three significant
figures. And none of the places ranking worse look like bastions of
civility.

OTOH, Canada (very similar except for gun laws) is just 1.80, far lower
than the U.S. And France, Denmark, U.K., Italy, Australia, New Zealand
etc. are all far lower than that.


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