Total Number Of Crimes Per 100,000 Inhabitants

[José]

Confronted by this chart without the country names, and asked to identify countries from the list, many people, certainly in Europe, would probably place the USA at the top of the chart. But, in international terms, crime in the USA is low. The image of America as a crime-ridden society may arise from the very high rates that are associated with a small number of inner-city areas. Large parts of rural America are, as an approximation, effectively crime free.

http://mahalanobis.twoday.net/stories/814027/

Et aussi, une féministe logique :

Domestic Violence Victims Need Self-Defense

On June 27th, in Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court found that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to police protection from a private individual even in the presence of a restraining order. By a vote of 7-to-2, Gonzales has no right to sue her local police department for failing to protect her from her estranged and, ultimately, lethal husband.

The post-mortem discussion on Gonzales has been fiery but it has missed an obvious point. If the government won't protect you, then you have to take responsibility for your own self-defense and that of your family.

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A third position cries out: given that responsible adults need the ability to defend themselves, no law or policy should impede their access to gun ownership.

Responsible adults -- both male and female -- have both a right and a need to defend themselves and their families, with lethal force if necessary. If DV advocates had focused on putting a gun in Jessica's hand and training her to use it, then the three Gonzales children might still be alive.

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Nevertheless most anti-DV advocates strenuously avoid gun ownership as a possible solution to DV. Instead, they appeal for more police intervention even though the police have no obligation to provide protection.

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That position may be defensible. But it ignores half of the equation. It ignores the need of potential victims to defend themselves and their families. Anti-DV and women's groups create the impression that guns are always part of the problem and never part of the solution.

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The true meaning of being anti-DV means is to help victims out of their victimhood and into a position of power.

[Invité jabial]

Ca ne me fait pas plaisir, j'ai l'habitude d'avoir raison

Ce qui me ferait plaisir, c'est que certaines personnes que j'estime beaucoup (hein mon pote Chitah) en tirent les conclusions logiques.

[Antoninov]

Comme ne le dit un commentaire sur le site original, il semble que ces statistiques regroupent meutres, vols, pockpockets, …

C'est donc hautement significatif

[melodius]

Je me disais bien.