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To: heinz44 who wrote (40520)5/21/2007 1:43:02 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78419
 
Well, 'they' kill about on to two a day in Chicago.. so a two person shooting spree is business as usual. It used to be a rate of 4 to 5 people killed per day in Detroit in the 60's. Domestic murders outpace Iraq violence by a good margin, and despite what we are led to believe by politicians seeking simplistic control solutions as balm for the public mind and especially for vote catching, murder rates have not increased much since 1914 if at all. 6 have died by the big M per 100,000 population per year pretty much constantly since the turn of the century. 18,900 per year. All in all, perhaps 2.5 million people in 100 years have been murdered in the USA.

Traffic accidents take about 50,000 lives per year in the USA. About 2.5 million people have died this way since the turn of the century. Aids has killed about 400,000 in the US and will kill perhaps 1 million more in the next 20 years.

The troubles in the ME and of spree violence of the type mentioned, i.e. nuts with guns, while not trivial, pale in comparison to the many slaughters that are eminently preventable and which we have become tragically inured to.

If we were in a war which killed 85,000 per year, we would be throwing up our hands in surrender. I don't think that many US soldiers died per year in WWII.

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