With less
than 5% of
world population the USA
has
over 2.4 million of 9.8
million world prisoners! The majority
of U.S. inmates are in due to the drug war.
CHARTS. Homicide,
murder. Rates worldwide. Many nations. Various
causes for
differences in rates. Drug war, handguns, poverty, poor safety nets,
poor healthcare nets, corporatist hate radio, etc.. Many NRA
members are Morons and Sheep. Wake up the sheeple. See also this Wikipedia page:List
of countries by homicide rate.
Western and Central Europe homicide rate = 1.5 per 100,000
people.
USA is 6.1 per 100,000 people.
Canada is 1.85 per 100,000.
Handguns only increase the murder rate. Canada and much of Western
Europe effectively ban handguns for the most part.
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Chart.
Homicide rates. Many nations. Latest rates. [TopLink]
This chart below was copied from this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
This chart came from the table of 21st century rates on the wikipedia
page.
Go there to find the latest version, and the reference sources for the
statistics.
Homicide rates per 100,000 inhabitants according to the most
recent rates at the time this chart was copied from Wikipedia (May
4, 2009). Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants.
Homicide rates per 100,000 inhabitants according to the most
recent rates at the time this chart was copied from Wikipedia (May
4, 2009). Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants.
This
Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS)
chart is copied from the above bold link.
BJS documents are in the public domain. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov-DOJ
The BJS chart is based on statistics from the NCHS
(National Center for Health Statistics, Vital
Statistics). It has slightly different homicide
rates than those from the FBI. The FBI rate is
usually about .5 less. The wk1 file above also has
the number of violent crimes in the USA every year
since 1960. Use Excel or another spreadsheet program
to open the wk1 file.
Please distribute this paragraph below and the links at the end of it.
Some
day Americans will wake up from deadly NRA propaganda. Banning handguns
does not
kill people. NRA beliefs kill people, and the NRA lobbies for
tyranny and
terrorism. Both individual terrorism and the terrorism of the U.S.
prison-industrial-complex. NRA members believe that people have the
right to own
any weapon - including rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), high
explosives,
suitcase nukes, anthrax, jeep-mounted heavy machine guns, stinger
missiles,
etc.. Your basic militia terrorist arsenal. These people are bold evil
morons
who support the moron-in-chief George W. Bush.
*National Rifle Association
(NRA). Their
campaign for
longer sentences,
mandatory minimum
sentences, truth in sentencing. For both
violent and non-violent offenders, DRUG offenders, etc.. A far-right
Nazi-like cult for
the U.S. prison industrial complex, whether
they
know it or not. Ban handguns, so
we can keep rifles and shotguns legal. Wimpy handguns don't defend
against
tyranny. We can end the
drug war and
mass-incarceration tyranny a lot faster if
murders, handguns, and drug war violence were at Canadian, Australian,
and
Western European levels. http://corporatism.tripod.com/nra.htm
and http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/nra.htm
Handguns are effectively banned or severely discouraged in
Canada
and
Europe. The lack of handguns in Canada and Europe is
a big
factor in why
Canada and Europe have such low murder rates when compared to the USA.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
Canada has
far fewer handguns per capita than the USA:
"As we see it, a ban on ordinary Canadians continuing to own handguns
is eminently reasonable and ought to be supported by most of us, even
in the
face of statistics indicating there could be as many as one
million
of
the weapons now in Canada. After all, that
statistic can be
seen as showing
that 30 million Canadians don’t see a need for such easily concealed
firearms.
If nothing else, the ban would stand as a statement made by a peaceable
society.
Unlike the much-maligned federal gun registry, such a ban need not
involve any
costly administration. And, as we understand it, handguns could still
be owned
by collectors and others so long as they are rendered permanently
inoperable."
~ Orangeville Citizen. Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. January 5, 2006. Emphasis
added. http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006/0105/Editorial/016.html http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1195031
"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing
they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell
him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or
labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell. January 8, 1941 article for the Evening
Standard. http://www.orwelltoday.com/readerriflequote.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
The Second Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution does not need wimpy handguns to defend against tyranny.
But
outraged public opinion may someday effectively regulate into oblivion
nearly
ALL guns in the USA due to the high number of murders done with handguns
due
to their easy concealment in public. So the National Rifle
Association may be responsible for eventual tyranny in the
USA
because some
of the NRA are Morons
that choose to
defend handguns, and thereby end up causing rifles
to be nearly banned along with handguns.
The average person is not going to risk smuggling a handgun
across a border when he/she can buy a rifle or shotgun legally to
protect their
house.
Average people smuggle drugs across borders frequently. Far fewer
average
people smuggle guns across borders. The reason is simple. There
is
little
need nor desire to smuggle handguns across borders. There is HUGE
desire for
drugs.
When concealed carry of handguns is allowed in places in the
USA,
the
crime rates are hardly effected. Minor variations in crime rates.
In nations where handguns have been effectively banned over a
long
period
of time, and where they allow rifles and/or shotguns, their
murder rates
are MUCH lower than in the USA.
Home invasion and burglary rates vary greatly all over the world. When
rifles
and shotguns are also banned then home invasion and burglary rates go
up.
It is ineffective to ban handguns in some cities while allowing
neighboring
areas to have handguns. It only works in whole nations over years. Then
there is
much less of a problem of gun smuggling.
It is just too much trouble for the average person to smuggle guns
across
borders. It is easy to smuggle guns from city to city in the same
nation.
When a whole nation bans handguns the lack of handguns greatly lowers
the
homicide rate. Just because criminals have handguns doesn't translate
into a
high homicide rate. Most homicides are committed out of momentary rage
between
non-criminals.
That is why overall the near-banning of handguns in Europe and Canada
is
working. Most people don't want to go to the trouble required to get an
illegal
handgun. They can much more easily buy a rifle or shotgun to protect
their home,
and teargas to put in their pocket to lower their fear while outside
their
homes.
People try to equate prohibitions of handguns and drugs. But people
want
drugs for enjoyment mostly. People want handguns mostly out of fear.
Totally
different motivations.
Motivation is key. It is like the cannabis situation in Holland. Young
people
can buy cannabis legally, and they don't have to associate with hard
drug
dealers to do so, and so there is far less likelihood that they will
get
involved with people who sell heroin. There is little motivation to do
so. Even
cannabis use is lower in Holland than in the USA because there is no
"forbidden fruit" syndrome. Cannabis is just no big deal there.
That is why there is less use of both cannabis and harder drugs in
Holland,
especially in young people. The whole harm reduction philosophy is
openly
advocated in Holland. The average age of people using heroin is
increasing
because younger people for over a generation have had access to legal
cannabis,
and less motivation to get harder drugs.
So let's compare: In most of Europe people can buy the legal "soft"
guns such as rifles and shotguns, rather than the "hard" illegal
more-dangerous guns such as handguns. Most people aren't going to deal
with
international smugglers just to get a handgun.
Plus the murder rate is much lower in Europe due to the fact that
handguns
have been effectively banned for so long in most of Europe. Fear of
murder is
not nearly as big in Europe as in the USA.
People in Europe and Canada like having a much lower murder rate than
the
handgun-happy NRA-ruled USA.
Really think about this. If you wanted to kill some one and get away
with it,
what weapon would you use? Some people have never thought about this
because it
is such an unpleasant subject. But killing someone with almost anything
other
than a handgun will likely be very messy, with a lot of blood. Some
blood is
bound to get on you or your clothes. How do you make your getaway?
People talk out their ass about the second amendment, defending
themselves in
the street, etc. but don't think about what actually really happens.
Most
thieves and muggers and murderers are not going to warn you before they
stick a
weapon in your face and demand your money or your life.
You aren't going to have time to pull out any weapon. So your concealed
handgun is mostly just a fashion accessory to impress your friends and
associates. Or to shoot them when you are in an argument and in a
temporary
rage.
Get real, everybody. Rifles and shotguns serve the
original
purpose of the
Second Amendment which was to defend against tyranny. They
are
also adequate for
stopping home invasions and burglaries.
They were what existed, and what average people could afford,
at the
time
of these quotes:
"Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of
Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~ James
Madison
"Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at
large, than to have them properly armed and equipped." ~ Alexander
Hamilton
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they
are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America
cannot
enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are
armed,
and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can
be, on
any pretense, raised in the United States." ~ Noah Webster
"No free men shall be debarred the use of arms." ~ Thomas
Jefferson
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people
always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to
use
them." ~ Richard Henry Lee
"The great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is
able
may have a gun. . . . Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and
debasing
degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?" ~
Patrick
Henry
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over
the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate
governments . . . forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.
. . .
[The] several kingdoms of Europe . . . are afraid to trust the people
with
arms." ~ James Madison
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them,
may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which might be
occasionally
raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury
of their
fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their
right to
keep and bear their private arms." ~ Tench Coxe
Tench Coxe, noted federalist and friend of James
Madison, wrote
in
defense of the proposed Constitution, in the Pennsylvania Gazette of
Feb. 20,
1788: "Their swords, and every other terrible instrument of the
soldier,
are the birth right of an American. ... The unlimited power of the
sword is not
in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but, where
I trust
in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
Harm Reduction drug policies lower drug overdose
deaths,
chronic hard-drug user illness in
general, and societal violence also.
The Drug War is the main entry
point of mostly
nonviolent offenders into the
super-violent college of the U.S. prison-industrial complex.
American gulags are one of the ROOTS of the
astronomical US murder rate. 2 charts below.
*7-1999. USA. War Won't Solve the Drug Problem. "In
1988, just over half of the murders in the city
[New York City]
were 'drug-related.' But once the researchers examined the
circumstances
of the murders, they discovered that the clear majority, 74
percent, were
results of the drug trade,
not drug use
(14 percent) or the need to get money
for drugs (4 percent)." July 1999 Washington Post op-ed
from
Drug Policy
Foundation. Emphasis added. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n731.a13.html
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably
by
the
prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of
respect
for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced. It is an
open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this
country is closely
connected with this."
--Albert Einstein, "My First Impression
of the
U.S.A.", 1921. (emphasis added).
*12-1999. US: Overall Violence Is Up Since '60s,
Study
Reports. ["kind of
crime rate that we would have said is a disaster
when we went to work on that crime report 30 years ago...notes
the continuing prevalence of crime in the United States
relative to other industrialized nations... Nearly (one-quarter)
of all young children live in poverty. America is the
most unequal country in the industrialized world
in
terms of income, wages and wealth."]| http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99/n1314/a09.html
The Chicago Tribune Nov. 2, 1995 reports:
"Although drugs and violent crime often are linked in America, the
violent crime rate
in the Netherlands is far lower than in the U.S., despite the
Netherlands' more liberal
drug policies. There were 1.9 homicides in Holland per 100,000 people
in 1993. The U.S.
rate was 9.5 homicides per 100,000." Emphasis added.
A 1994 Sentencing Project report states:
"Rates of assault and murder with firearms are far higher in the US
than in
comparable nations, with murder rates in the US generally five to ten
times the rate of
most European nations."
The prison-industrial complex is a FACTORY for
creating
ever-more
violent criminals from nonviolent ones.
"Since 1960, the number of violent crimes committed in the U.S. has
increased by
more than 500%, although the population has grown just 41%. According
to the FBI,
nearly
2,000,000 violent crimes occurred in 1991 alone. In 1960, that figure
was less then
300,000" (May 1994, USA Today magazine).
ABC news did a report January
28, 1996 about Nashville's police department and the effect of putting
only 28 of their
300 detectives to work full-time on domestic violence.
In 1992, out of 78 murders in Nashville, one third were because of
domestic violence.
Only one detective back then worked on domestic violence. In contrast,
in 1995 there were
only 7 murders due to domestic violence. One detective in
Nashville said that no matter
how many detectives were assigned to narcotics, the narcotics crime
rate would stay the
same. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to US
women,
more than
the combination of rapes, muggings, and auto accidents. According to
The
Harvard Mental Health Letter, August 1995, each year, one out of eight
husbands is
physically aggressive at least once toward his wife and nearly 2
million women are
severely assaulted by their male partners.
Washington Monthly, October 1995: "'We put millions of drug offenders
through
the courts--and we have more people in jail per capita than any country
except Russia--but
we're not affecting the drug trade, let alone drug use,' says
Robert Sweet,
U.S. district judge in the Southern district of New
York.
'It's perfectly obvious,' Sweet
says, 'that if you took the money spent housing drug
offenders and enforcing the drug
laws, and apply it to straight law enforcement, the results would be
very impressive.' Indeed,
what politicians ignore is all too clear to judges, prosecutors, and
cops. 'The drug war
can't be won,' says Joseph McNamara, the former chief of police in
Kansas City and San
Jose, who also spent 10 years on the New York City force. 'Any cop will
tell you
that.'"
As for nations without long, genuinely-democratic traditions let's look
at the
country with the highest murder rate in the world in 1993--Colombia,
the main
Death-Squad narco-democracy, with the most drug-related murders per
capita.
New Statesman & Society, Dec 17 1993, says that "In 1991, there
were 25,000
murders; this year [1993], the total looks set to reach 30,000--a rate
of 99 murders per
100,000 population, compared with an average of 17 per 100,000 in Latin
America as a
whole. 'Colombia is clearly the most violent country
that's
not at war,' says
Alvaro Camacho, sociologist at Bogota's National University." [must
have had a lull
in 1993 in the 'official' war between the guerrillas and the
government. The Drug War
never stopped. Ex- U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) leader
generalissimo Barry McCaffrey
(Drug Czar under President Clinton) wouldn't have approved of that type
of sanity. Because he's
Drug
Crazy. Buy the book by Mike Gray]
The high violent crime and murder rate in the USA is much of
the
justification for the draconian mandatory minimum drug
laws. The crack cocaine laws are justified because of the
violent
crack cocaine drug trade. And then all the other mandatory minimum drug
laws for other drugs and cannabis ride the bandwagon of the crack
cocaine parade, and are thrown in as part of the package.
If banning handguns in the USA eventually lowered the
astronomical
US murder rate down to the far-smaller rate in Western Europe, Canada,
Australia, etc, and this caused US citizens to no longer feel
the
need for draconian drug war sentencing and laws,
then to hell with handguns, and good riddance. You
don't protect
against tyranny with a wimpy handgun anyway. You use a rifle or
shotgun. Handguns cause the astronomical US murder rate, because there
is no other way to EASILY murder someone with a lethal concealable
weapon, and not get blood (evidence) all over oneself. Think about it.
I am all for letting the NRA temporarily get its dream of
legal
concealed-carry laws in all 50 states just to prove that it will only
have a
minor effect on dropping the murder rate
(compared to Western Europe, Canada, Australia).
Then the NRA and more of us Americans may pull our collective
heads
out of our xenophobic asses and try Western Europe's banning of handguns
- to get
results, not ideology - in order to lessen the murder rate, and the
harm of the drug war, drugs, and the drug trade.
Public opinion often ties the violence of American society to the drug
trade in the eyes of many Americans.
The high US murder rate is why the USA is so far behind
Western
Europe in harm
reduction drug policies; and also in decriminalizing, tolerating, and
legalizing cannabis,
either for recreational or medical use.
Drug Czar (under Clinton) McCaffrey frequently lied
about the
supposed dangers of cannabis, the numbers of deaths from all drugs,
etc.. McCzar
successfully tied cannabis to hard drugs in the public's mind.
Violence, murder, and drug deaths.
Nixon started the "war on drugs" mentality in 1971 when he
declared
the "war on drugs." He also tied it to the whole "law and order" issue.
Republicrats have bamboozled us yet again. The NRA lobbied
hard for
mandatory minimums. To shift attention away yet again from HANDGUNS.
Handguns allow easy murder
- without getting
bloody. Putting 2 million people in jail hasn't done much to
stop
the
violence. Been
there, done that. Next.
The NRA is helping put millions of drug users in jail - many
for
long
sentences due to their lobbying for mandatory minimums. The NRA is the
enemy.
*chapter1.htm [A Tale of Two Cities, chapter 1 of Drug
Crazy,
by Mike Gray.
Chicago's prohibition violence now, and in the 1920's and 30's]. http://www.drugcrazy.com/chapter1.htm
*A Punk's Song. [prison rape. Terminology. Turning
nonviolent
into violent.
Prisoner power structure. Forced sex slavery via fear of death.
American gulags]. http://www.spr.org/docs/punk.html
*Rape of Incarcerated Americans: A
Preliminary
Statistical Look. [Turning nonviolent into violent. Most
US
inmates are from Drug
War/trade/money-for-drugs crimes]. http://www.spr.org/docs/stats.html
*National Rifle Association
(NRA). Their
campaign for
longer sentences,
mandatory minimum
sentences, truth in sentencing. For both
violent and non-violent offenders, DRUG offenders, etc.. A far-right
Nazi-like cult for
the U.S. prison industrial complex, whether
they
know it or not. Ban handguns, so
we can keep rifles and shotguns legal. Wimpy handguns don't defend
against
tyranny. We can end the
drug war and
mass-incarceration tyranny a lot faster if
murders, handguns, and drug war violence were at Canadian, Australian,
and
Western European levels. http://corporatism.tripod.com/nra.htm
and http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/nra.htm
Murder rate per year per
100,000 inhabitants. 
