jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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Actually Tazzy, I believe I covered your question. What I see is that Julia is not putting forth a viable alternative to capital punishment. She suggests that countries without capital punishment have a lower incidence of violent crimes, which I have proven to be false. Some countries have a lower incidence of murder but it is only non-existent in Iceland with a murder rate of 0. Violent crimes by country are broken down to assaults: # 1 United States: 2,238,480 # 2 United Kingdom: 723,886 # 3 South Africa: 548,847 # 4 Mexico: 253,972 # 5 India: 236,313 # 6 Canada: 235,270 # 7 Argentina: 185,973 # 8 Australia: 141,124 # 9 Germany: 126,932 # 10 France: 106,484 # 11 Zimbabwe: 93,062 # 12 Spain: 90,453 # 13 Belgium: 61,755 # 14 Sweden: 61,631 # 15 Japan: 55,766 # 16 Chile: 55,575 # 17 Turkey: 53,485 # 18 Netherlands: 52,521 # 19 Morocco: 46,341 # 20 Tunisia: 35,723 # 21 New Zealand: 31,812 # 22 Austria: 31,576 # 23 Poland: 30,969 # 24 Italy: 28,699 # 25 Finland: 28,022 # 26 Peru: 26,728 # 27 Colombia: 25,219 # 28 Portugal: 23,378 # 29 Zambia: 22,127 # 30 Thailand: 20,125 # 31 Indonesia: 18,562 # 32 Korea, South: 14,925 # 33 Norway: 14,727 # 34 Saudi Arabia: 13,864 # 35 Hungary: 11,781 # 36 Romania: 11,137 # 37 Jamaica: 10,833 # 38 Mauritius: 10,784 # 39 Uruguay: 10,544 # 40 Denmark: 10,330 # 41 Ireland: 9,921 # 42 Burma: 8,059 # 43 Hong Kong: 7,450 # 44 Czech Republic: 7,350 # 45 Switzerland: 6,123 # 46 Croatia: 5,404 # 47 Ukraine: 5,264 # 48 Slovakia: 4,801 # 49 Bolivia: 4,643 # 50 El Salvador: 4,542 # 51 Greece: 3,322 # 52 Panama: 3,182 # 53 Bulgaria: 3,084 # 54 Slovenia: 2,501 # 55 Costa Rica: 2,284 # 56 Belarus: 2,116 # 57 Kuwait: 2,097 # 58 Lithuania: 1,668 # 59 Papua New Guinea: 1,351 # 60 Luxembourg: 1,328 # 61 Iceland: 1,270 # 62 Cyprus: 1,192 # 63 Moldova: 1,188 # 64 Yemen: 1,015 # 65 Latvia: 882 # 66 Malta: 823 # 67 Oman: 717 # 68 Seychelles: 700 # 69 Albania: 554 # 70 Maldives: 523 # 71 Georgia: 488 # 72 Estonia: 460 # 73 Qatar: 327 # 74 Kyrgyzstan: 208 # 75 Azerbaijan: 173 # 76 Montserrat: 96 # 77 Dominica: 70 # 78 Philippines: 62 And Murders: 1 India: 37,170 2 Russia: 28,904 3 Colombia: 26,539 4 South Africa: 21,553 5 United States: 16,204 6 Mexico: 13,144 7 Venezuela: 8,022 8 Philippines: 6,553 9 Thailand: 5,140 10 Ukraine: 4,418 11 Argentina: 3,453 12 Indonesia: 2,204 13 El Salvador: 2,024 14 United Kingdom: 1,201 15 Peru: 1,136 16 France: 1,051 17 Belarus: 989 18 Korea, South: 955 19 Germany: 914 20 Zimbabwe: 912 21 Jamaica: 887 22 Nepal: 826 23 Zambia: 797 24 Poland: 716 25 Yemen: 697 26 Italy: 644 27 Japan: 637 28 Romania: 563 29 Malaysia: 551 30 Canada: 523 31 Spain: 494 32 Papua New Guinea: 465 33 Kyrgyzstan: 413 34 Moldova: 340 35 Bulgaria: 332 36 Australia: 302 37 Lithuania: 293 38 Panama: 281 39 Costa Rica: 254 40 Bolivia: 248 41 Portugal: 247 42 Georgia: 239 43 Chile: 235 44 Czech Republic: 234 45 Sweden: 219 46 Uruguay: 217 47 Latvia: 214 48 Switzerland: 213 49 Azerbaijan: 212 50 Hungary: 203 51 Saudi Arabia: 202 52 Albania: 179 53 Netherlands: 157 54 Belgium: 155 55 Estonia: 143 55 Morocco: 143 57 Slovakia: 138 58 Finland: 132 59 Armenia: 127 60 Namibia: 126 61 Tunisia: 119 62 Burma: 92 63 Greece: 81 64 Croatia: 80 65 Austria: 65 66 Denmark: 56 67 New Zealand: 51 68 Norway: 49 69 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 47 70 Hong Kong: 38 70 Ireland: 38 72 Slovenia: 36 73 Mauritius: 26 74 Kuwait: 23 75 Oman: 15 76 Maldives: 8 77 Malta: 6 77 Seychelles: 6 79 Luxembourg: 4 79 Iceland: 4 81 Dominica: 2 81 Cyprus: 2 83 Qatar: 1 Total: 197,333
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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