Dec 24, 2010, 03:03 PM
DataStorm Wrote:There is maybe once a week a shooting incident in my country (and yes, that includes all, the most of them are without any wounded), in your country it only gets in the newspaper if they shoot more than 5 ppl or so, preferably in a school or some other public place, otherwise they don't have nuff "footage" to make it a worthwile story.Not to step on Womb's toes - I actually had a nice, well structured response with links to data from the UN but it really boils down to this - the US is not a hive of scum and villainy as you purport. The US has 18 times the population of the Netherlands (~308 mil to ~17 mil) and only has 5 times the murders and we're no where near the top 10 per-capita. As for Theft and Assault, Netherlands outpaces the US per-capita by 25-33%.