The U.S. is Not as Violent as You Think

Last updated on: January 11, 2013 at 2:00 pm by Joe Carter

The U.S. is Not as Violent as You Think 2013-01-06T03:17:43+00:00 Joe Carter

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Since the shooting in Newtown there has been hundreds of articles written about guns, gun control, and gun violence. Patrick Cahalan has written the best of the bunch:

Basically, you’re not very likely to be murdered in either [the U.S. or the U.K.

Really.

In fact, given that 10% of the murders in the U.S. are family-related, and given that 74% of murder defendants have a prior criminal record, and 44% of murder victims have a prior criminal record, and that 82% of non-family murder victims are male, and 53% of non-family murder victims are black, and 38.5% of non-family murder victims are between 20-29, and that half of murders involve alcohol… the actual odds that you’ll be the victim of a murder, if you’re a sober, law-abiding middle aged white person who doesn’t piss off your wife or your children… is actually probably pretty close to the general murder rate in the U.K.

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