Did you know America's murder rate is almost exactly the same as Swedens?
.... So let's do the arithmetic: of the 14,612 murders in the U.S. in 2011, about 7,656 were committed by blacks and another 4,380 were committed by illegal aliens. That leaves 2,576 committed by non-black people who are here legally.
In round numbers, there are about 250 million non-blacks in the U.S. legally. So their murder rate is about 1.0 per 100,000, or the same as Sweden's.
A murder rate of 1.0 is in the same league as the Europeans who like to call us gun-crazy cowboys. But it's not the "cowboys" who are doing the killing.
(In fact, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming have murder rates significantly lower than the U.S. average. Texas itself is close to average. Illinois, the last state to allow concealed carry and the only state to require a special ID to purchase either guns or ammunition, has an above average rate.)
Peter Baldwin is a professor of history at UCLA. I'm pretty sure he's no racist. If he is, he's a racist who gets published by the Huffington Post. He wrote a book called The Narcissism of Minor Differences which demonstrates that the U.S. is really not much different from Europe. Buried in his book is this little nugget.
"Take out the black underclass from the statistics, and even American murder rates fall to European levels."
Actually, he was a bit unfair to the black underclass. He should have included the illegal alien underclass as well.
To all the people so concerned about the murder rate in this country (which was actually historically low in 2011), you know where to look. But a " nation of cowards" is just too afraid to look there.
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