The United States has an AVERAGE murder rate and rampage killings are JUST ONE PERCENT of U.S. murders
There are some eye-opening statistics that bear repeating in my recent article about President Obama cynically using the Oct. 1 mass-shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon to promote gun control. Say them over and over and over again. And then again a few more times for good measure. Contrary to gun-grabbing hysterics, the United States of America does NOT have a high murder rate. The U.S. has merely an “average” murder rate among the nations of the world. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the global average murder rate (PDF file) is 6.2 per 100,000 human … Continue reading The United States has an AVERAGE murder rate and rampage killings are JUST ONE PERCENT of U.S. murders
