A different view

Murder and Mayhem

It's been a busy year in the US. In something you wouldn't expect, or may you would.

In homocide. Murder. You kill'em, we chill'em. You stab'em, we slab'em.

While those lazy Canadians just north of us only got around to 772 murders last year, Newark alone topped 101 murders this year. And they say we can't do anything right down here.

I was actually kind of surprised that Los Angeles is down to a measly 487 murders a year. So we have one city in the US that has over half the homicides that the entire country of Canada commits.

Overall, the US was at 16,692 for 2005. Oddly enough, this is down from 20,613 in 1986.

Why are we so violent? If it's video games, then why are the murder rates going down at a time when everyone is getting a game console?

Odd, but what a total disregard for life either way.

posted by don1one @ 5:56 AM