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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33282)	4/17/2008 7:21:21 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219832

My wife's uncle was murdered, nephew's ex girl friend murdered [Marie Jamieson], wife's school mate murdered [Susan Burdett]. wow, you know so many who have been murdered. I don't even have anyone closed to me or friends of my relatives getting murdered in HK. It is city jungle here, not the suburban jungle where killers can commit their crimes and just drive away and hide. There's nowhere to hide in HK with so many eyewitnesses. I can recall from media that in Seattle where people can kill someone and can hide in forest east of Seattle without a trace. So many unsolved cases there ...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33282)	4/17/2008 3:30:08 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219832

"A lot of people don't "perceive" that now." Your perceptions and those of a potential immigrant are no doubt different. So far your negative views haven't caused you to leave, anyway. For what it's worth (SFA), nobody of my acquaintance in NZ has been murdered. Murder stats are very low here, compared with the US for example, probably largely as a result of the relative unavailability of guns. BTW, if I were 20 years younger I'd probably move to Oz, even if it's less safe.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33282)	4/17/2008 8:01:49 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219832

Wow. My circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances includes more suicides than seems reasonable (one is too many) but no murders, unless you include two of my dad's dental assistants about 40 years ago, drug related "executions" in Miami many moons ago. One girl was the sister and the other the girlfriend of the wrong guy, apparently tried to get cute in a drug deal and they all paid the price. Sad. For a while I lived in New Orleans, a place with many murders, and, indeed, a woman living across the street was knifed to death by a burglar, but I did not know her. Washington DC is a place of many murders, but we live in Fairfax, VA, a "bedroom community" with few murders. Even robbery, burglary and rape are relatively infrequent. This despite the fact that we are racially, ethnically and culturally diverse. Thus, I conclude that race, ethnicity and culture are not causes of violent crime, but economic advantage and disadvantage seem to be, and perhaps also educational advantage and disadvantage. Not to mention that certain je ne sais quoi I call general fuggheadedness. Example, methamphetamines. Some people taking methamphetamines work harder, longer, and are more productive. Fighter jet pilots. Long haul truck drivers. Assembly line workers. Others become violent, crazed and destructive. It's something in the genes, or in the wiring. Freud on cocaine was a genius. Your average mediocre movie star on cocaine is a loser. This is not a "too good for the common people" argument. I could not handle methamphetamines or cocaine myself, and prefer not to try. Caffeine, alcohol and occasionally nicotine are about what I can handle.