A sobering statistic

3 thoughts on “A sobering statistic”

1. You mean the lower life expectancy is impacted by gun violence?

   I thought it was the failures of the U.S health care system:

   http://bloggingblue.com/2009/08/31/u-s-life-expectancy-hits-new-high/#comments

   I’m glad to see you’ve come around.

2. “The murder rate in Russia far exceeded that in any other European country, and was exceeded only by South Africa. Murder rates in the USA were less than half that in
   Russia in 1997 but were still markedly higher than rates in other western and eastern European countries.
   Norway, Japan and Ireland (though not Northern Ireland) were the countries where the population was least likely to die from murder. England and Wales are
   in the lower half of the distribution of European countries, although the rate in Scotland was 20% higher than that in England and Wales in 1997.”
   http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/2004/muder.pdf

   I thought Michael Moore told us in his litte movie that the problem wasn’t guns so much as it was fear. What is President Obama doing to combat this problem?

3. I wonder how many of that number were killed by cops?

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