Mary, I think the murder rate in the USA is about 40,000 a year. Yes, the USA population is about 12 x that of Iraq. So comparing murder rates, we have something like, per year, 1:10,000 in the USA and 1:1,000 in Iraq.
If the USA murder rate was 10x the present, it would still seem quite peaceable on a daily basis. I have spent quite some time in the USA and if I saw 10x as much murder as I have done, it would still seem very peaceful.
<I don't remember the last time we found bodies with heads severed, car bombs, and suicide bombers on any day much less on a daily basis.>
Well, there was 911, there was Tim McVeigh, Waco, the Symbionese Liberation Army, Patty Hearst, Helter Skelter, Rodney King carnage usc.edu Columbine, check out this lengthy list of school shootings/suicides infoplease.com
My memory must be better than yours. Okay, they aren't car bombs [the Ryder truck was a truck bomb], but as they say, there's no nice way to kill somebody. Head severing is just another way of killing. Being dragged behind a car until dead isn't all fun either you know. Americans are more into car culture, so dragging is the cultural bias. Lynchings after beatings have been popular too. Head-hacking isn't so popular. Shootings is less messy for the person doing the killing. Easier too. Though OJ went for the head-hacking method.
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