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Ah...I dunno 'bout y'all, but Murder and Mayhem? Gotta be two of my favorite subjects.
I won't go into today's findings...I've already had my fill, tankyooberrymutts. Besides, you of course already saw all you wanted to on the post I posted earlier, entitled "INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE UPDATE!" Something I didn't say was, that the city council of Des Moines has FINALLY said, "Gee....maybe we oughtta do something about those there hotels." Here's the thing though, one of the hotels they mention doing something about also houses the mother of the child whose father was murdered...in THIS one (shown above). I love this town. If you'd like to hear more about that, plus plus, please, wait a minute...then go and see the other blog I just started: Iowa & More Importantly, Des Moines Iowa; shown here:
http://desmoinesandiowathevenusflytrap.blogspot.com/
Now, of course, we won't be going into all that here...this is AMERICA'S deadly sins, not Des Moines'...hence the creation of the other one. So let's get down to the Nitty. Oh, and the Gritty too, can't do without that one, now can we?
Let's start with murder. Now, murder, in and of itself, is probably what we Americans do best, right after our skills of "go to war", taxes, follow government blindly, and litigate against others. How do I know this? Well, I'd have to say that the numbers speak for themselves. In order for those numbers to speak for themselves loudly enough, however, we have to have the usual gambit of comparison countries. And what are the ones we love to pit ourselves against the most? Well, there's England....though I'm not exactly sure why we compare ourselves to that country, given that they only sport about a 25th of our national size, in square miles. But I digress. Now Russia...THERE'S country more suited to compare to us. Then China. Brazil, that's gotta be halfway comparable. Australia! That's a biggie. Canada. OK, so they don't carry the population we do...but then, you have to remember that some of those itty bitty countries, like Ireland, Isreal, the Korea's and the Viet Nams are FAMOUS for murder, as far as brother against brother, anyway. Then there are others that are smaller than us, but have a heavy duty populous, like Mongolia, India and Japan. Then you have those where murder is as bad as shoplifting, like Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose we should give at least 10, some from each of these, a fair comparison against our great country, in order to be non-conformist and non-judgemental.
Soooo...whaddya say we go with Japan, Russia, China, India, Afghanistan, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, Egypt, and...OH, OK, England...there, ya happy? Damn Brits anyway...
Let's start with murderers. Now this is a tricky label to stick onto someone. First you have to remember that not all people that are accused of murder are murderers. Especially when you consider our system of justice, which falls directly under the Constitution where it says "Innocent until proven guilty."...a definitive way of handling the accused that we Americans have neither promoted, exhumed, or practiced. Nope, 'round these hare pahts, we shoot first, and ask questions LATER. You're guilty, then you're allowed to (maybe) prove you're innocent.
Then you have to remember that, in all these nations (including ours), that records and statistics can never be 100% accurate, for a number of reasons. For one, there are forever on-going investigations, cold cases, murderers that are murdering and not ever being caught, as well as murders that are happening that we have zero knowledge of. Then, if you REALLY want to take it to another level, there are six yr. old murderers that haven't murdered anyone yet. They're still murderers, they just haven't fully matured as yet. Isn't it fair to count these kids too? Then there's the postal worker that hasn't had time to flip out, and the college kid who hasn't been rejected by women enough yet. With all of this in mind, let's go on.
So, the good ol' U.S.A.'s number of murderers in our 200 yr. history (according to Murdercyclopedia, www.murdercyclopedia.com) is 4,686....men. That's 92 men per state, on the average. Oh, and for the record, no one in the world has more documented murders...men or women or BOTH...except for Australia and Great Britain. They themselves have no more murderers, combined...than just Texas...men. Texas? 825. Australia? 118. Great Britain? 411. Wowsers. That we know of, sure. That have been documented? OK...but those places have been around FOREVER!! We've only been here for a little over 200 years!!!!! (Have you noticed that the English speaking countries are the only countries with a high number? I think I see a pattern here...lol)
On to women murderers. Australia? 21. The U.K.? 100. America?...ooh boy. 650. Add that to our running total, and you have around 7300 murderers in the history of this country. I'm sorry kids, but that number is just a little too high for my liking. So, in the history of the world, that we've kept track of? The U.S., of course, leads the world...combined almost, at 7300 murderers. England's next with 511. That, by the way, in case your math stinks, is 6800 less than us. Australia, believe or not weighs in at a scant 139. Ireland, 9, China, 63. Japan, 67, Brazil 16, Mother Russia, 51, Canada 118, India 39, Afghanistan, 4; Egypt - 3.
Now you know this is gonna be sickening. We're gonna do the ones for only last year. I only wish I could find the figures since the beginning of our nation...I even tried. It's pretty much out of the question.
Well, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/16/u-s-murder-rate-higher-than-nearly-all-other-developed-countries-fbi-data/ says it's 14,000+. 24,000 a decade before that. 4.7 per 100,000 people.
So what you're saying, then, is that, in my city, of half a million, that we'll have 23.5 murders in this year alone. I don't really believe that I like that number a whole lot. In case you can't really figure the odds on that number, let me help you out. The chances that you'll be murdered, in my town, before new year's next year is somewhere close to 1 out of 40,000 people. Maybe 1 out of 45,000. The last one in my city (that I know of, anyway) was a little too close to home. Right down the street, literally, and affected the outcome of someone's life who was right next to me. Screw that!! Give me Australia, where I probably wouldn't be murdered...well, ever.
OK, what about mayhem? We haven't talked about that a whole lot. Well, probably because there isn't a whole lot of that going on...or is there? Or will there be? Well, just about every conspiracy-related Yahoo in our country is talking about economic crashes, government cover ups, Benghazi, terrorists, Hilary for President, Hilary for President over my dead body...have you been to Twitter of late? Read the feed. Follow it for five friggin' minutes. Here's the thing....you can't. I can't keep up with all the bad news that comes over Twitter in a five-minute post session. Everybody's mad about everything. This country is going to go belly-up, martial law may be our way of life, and mayhem will rule supreme. I wouldn't doubt that everyone's first order of business will be to raid the local hardware stores, and pick up as many shovels and screwdrivers and flashlights as they can get their little paws on. Then, they'll all storm the East coast, and start diggin'...we'll be looking for FETA, and all government and their families, on the off-chance that we might just be able to look 'em in the eye before we ship 'em of to a parallel plane. It'll be like a treasure hunt...remember when we used to do Easter-Egg hunts or treasure hunts when we were kids? Oh, we'll have such fun, won't we?? See ya soon!! :D
