Should we Ban Guns?

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brendude13 said:

Kasz216 said:

brendude13 said:

I mentioned to my friend today that Sweden was in 4th in the world when it came to violent crimes. He also mentioned they have a high rate of rapes and said it's because each time somebody is raped, even if it's by the same person, it is counted separately. So if a woman claims that her husband had raped her every day for the past year, that would go down as 365 incidents of rape.

I say those statistics are completely broken and are dependent on how a country defines what crimes are violent crimes and how they count them. You're right, this is about homicides, not violent crime. I'd rather be bruised and beaten in a bar fight than dead.

Actualy that hasn't been true in a while.  These numbers treated all cases the same.

Sweeden just naturally has more rape... as can be seen here.

http://www.thelocal.se/19102/20090427/#.URPjxGf0-f8

http://www.thelocal.se/19124/20090428/#.URPk52f0-f8

(Two differnet articles from the same sweedish newspaper.)

Also you know... that wouldn't explain the extra... 1,000 violent crimes.  Rape is such a small number it's barely a factor.

It's the real reason why Sweeden went after Julian Assange.

Additionally it's 46 per 100,000.  So Rape isn't largely effecting the number.

I didn't say rape accounted for the extra 1,000 violent crimes, I was just using it as an example of how what is defined as a violent crime and how it is counted varies from country to country.

I find it hard to believe that Sweden is a more dangerous place to live in than the US, let alone half as dangerous. The same applies to the other 5 or so countries that seemed far too high on that list.

When you take inner cities out of the equation america is really safe place. Also fighting is far more common in europe than the US.