| nuckles87 said: You know....there's a middle ground between what we have now, and communism. It's called the United States 50 years ago, when CEOs were paid 30 times the amount of an average worker, rather then 380 times, and when people moved up through a company rather than sitting in the same position at the same pay for 15 years as many workers do today. Also, this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
In any case, I find that first chart to be misleading: it's not using murder rates, it's using total numbers. America has a much larger population than those countries. And countries with either better gun control policy or with citizens who must enroll in the military, violent crimes in general are lower. Even when China had a spat of knifings a few years the highest death toll in a single incident was 8, I believe. No amount of laws will ever be able to end violence. There will always be weapons and always methods to commit mass murder. That doesn't mean, however, that we can't take steps to reduce these incidents. |
Homicides per million isn't a count of the total numbers. Its a count of the number of homicides per million citizens.....basically a homicide rate, which is what the article is talking about......meaning the US has about 60 homicides per million people.
Edit: I also think its a pretty standard measure for homicide rates.
