Re: The Armed Citizen - Missouri

"Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> > What would have to happen to reduce murder and suicide rates overall
> > would be to "win" the culture war and re-establish a single
> > main-stream, inclusive dominant American culture. We've had nearly 100
> > years of "divide-and-conquer" social engineering techniques applied to
> > our country by "socialist sappers" looking to undermine our entire
> > civilization structure, and it's high time we shut them down for good.
> > The acceptance and promotion of a Balkanized America has corresponded
> > directly with the increase in murder, suicide, and general
> > unhappiness.
> >
> > -Matt
>
> You've hit the nail on the head, Matt.  These social experiments and
> programs have been tried around the world and they haven't worked
> anywhere, and they aren't working here.
>
> Ron

Whatever causes the high US homicide rate, it's hard to prove its due to
cultural diversity.

Canada has more foreign-born citizens than the US:

"In March 2002, the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United
States included 32.5 million foreign born, representing 11.5 percent of the
US population."

"...at 18%, Canada's proportion of foreign-born citizens is the second
highest in the world...The vast majority of recent immigrants are visible
minorities..."

http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-539.pdf
http://www.ccsd.ca/pr/2003/diversity.htm

For the year 2000:

Homicide rate in the US: 5.5 per 100,000
Homicide rate in Canada: 1.77 per 100,000

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/legal12b.htm

For the year 1997:

Suicide rate in the US: 11.24 per 100,000
Suicide rate in Canada: 12.3 per 100,000

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/health01.htm

SG