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re: Why is America more violent than comparable countries?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 8:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 11/20/14 at 8:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Gruber
Posted on 11/20/14 at 8:27 am to AndyCBR
Your 6,7 and 8 are spot on. #6 leads to envy in a country where people believe that you've only achieved the American Dream if you're a millionaire.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 8:31 am to RD Dawg
quote:
So why are we approaching 30 years lows on almost all
violent crimes?
I dont know. I was throwing out one possible reason that we lead the 1st world in violent crime.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 8:55 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Please comment on this graphic without any view of the underlying data.
Link?
Link?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:27 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Complete lack of understanding of mental illness along with poor care for mental illness patients. Also, America's obsession with guns is truly absurd.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 9:45 am to TOKEN
Whites in this country are more violent then their counterparts elsewhere.
Nice try tho
Nice try tho
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Here is a great site. I once spent most of the morning reading all the links.
world's most dangerous places
world's most dangerous places
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:23 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Someone tell me what the other 300m+ countries are that have a ton of diversity and have a semblance of freedom and capitalism?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:40 am to Pettifogger
The Western Hemisphere in general has a lot more everyday violence than much of the rest of the world. Even blessed Canada is more violent than all but two of its European counterparts.
In the United States in particular, I think the fact that we are historically a frontier society with a lower regard for the law writ large (as opposed to say, the Netherlands or Germany) plays a significant part. Because of the geographic size of the place and lack of state resources to effectively police this boiling, brawling society for hundreds of years, justice was more often administered in an ad hoc manner than the more formal European methods.
Our demographics play a significant part in it as well: we have almost as many people of Hispanic descent alone in the United States as Italy has people in total. If France or Spain had our size or demographics, I am certain the violence would be different as well.
Can't forget the drug trade, either. That's the biggest driver at the micro-level.
In the United States in particular, I think the fact that we are historically a frontier society with a lower regard for the law writ large (as opposed to say, the Netherlands or Germany) plays a significant part. Because of the geographic size of the place and lack of state resources to effectively police this boiling, brawling society for hundreds of years, justice was more often administered in an ad hoc manner than the more formal European methods.
Our demographics play a significant part in it as well: we have almost as many people of Hispanic descent alone in the United States as Italy has people in total. If France or Spain had our size or demographics, I am certain the violence would be different as well.
Can't forget the drug trade, either. That's the biggest driver at the micro-level.
This post was edited on 11/20/14 at 10:41 am
Posted on 11/20/14 at 10:41 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
More freedom= more oppurtunites to exploit freedoms
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