[Puppage]

Also, although England’s murder rate is only one-sixth of America’s

I would think the murder rate disparity is due to the fact that America is home to more than 250+ million people...how many call England home?

[SamAdams76]

About 50 million live in England (about 1/6 the population of the U.S.). Good point.

[FreedomPoster]

Murder *rate* should be population adjusted; something like "murders per million population per year".

I've read several places that if you subtract out gang-banger/urban murders, which are mostly minority-on-minority, murder rates in the U.S. are around the rates in Europe. Look at the murder rate in, say, Idaho or North Dakota; it's pretty low. But it's politically incorrect to say this, and make efforts to address this problem.

[Green Knight]

Oops. Beat me to it. That's what I get for not reading the whole thread, first. *blushes*