From: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3104008/posts
The homicide rate in the U.S. is around average. Russia’s homicide rate is four times ours; rates in Africa average around five times ours; the rate in Brazil is five times ours; Mexico, which has stringent gun control laws, has double our homicide rate; murder rates in the Caribbean approximate those in Africa. It is true that Western European countries in general have lower rates than we do, but that is mostly because African-Americans commit murders at eight times the rate of whites. The murder rate in Norway is very low, but it is indistinguishable from the rate among Norwegian-Americans. It is also noteworthy that the homicide rate in the U.S. today is only one-half what it was in the early 1990s. That decline, which has occurred during a time when gun laws have generally been liberalized, is never addressed by gun control advocates. — John Hinderaker
I only know that AG Holder refuses to prosecute hate crimes when the crime involves black-on-white participants. Call it racists, whatever you want. It is true.
Such happy statistics are always pulled up to cheer us up. Try cheering up the widow.