But, if one dissects that 3.6 per 100K, does one notice that sore thumb sticks out as to a certain political self-interest group (well, each one of us is self-interested if evolution is to work) making up a big portion of it, ahem, exclusively? FBI has just recently released statistics. So is it guns? Or jobs? Or something else? Hey, just askin’ … Are guns and lack of jobs and economic opportunities in the same set of the Venn diagram?
But, if one dissects that 3.6 per 100K, does one notice that sore thumb sticks out as to a certain political self-interest group (well, each one of us is self-interested if evolution is to work) making up a big portion of it, ahem, exclusively? FBI has just recently released statistics. So is it guns? Or jobs? Or something else? Hey, just askin’ … Are guns and lack of jobs and economic opportunities in the same set of the Venn diagram?
Warren,
The United States boasts that it’s the ultimate bastion of freedom.
Yeah, sure, you have greater freedom to die violently in America than anywhere else on Earth…
Take away the “gun” qualifier and just make it “murders per 100,000”. See what it looks like then…
(but you already knew that, didn’t you?)