Switzerland has a stunningly high rate of gun ownership -but a murder rate of close to zero
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It’s because it’s nearly all white.
Simple as that.
The rate of whites (spez: non-hispanic) in the US committing murder is 1.7 per 100,000 (i.e., 0.0017 %). This is for 2015 and only for murders in which a perpetrator was known. For comparison, current wikipedia numbers show 0.5/100k for Switzerland and 1.7/100k for Belgium.
For blacks in the US, it's 13.6 per 100,000 (0.0136 %).
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_3_murder_offenders_by_age_sex_and_race_2015.xls
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/race/2015/ppl-ba15/ba15tab1.xlsx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
I think they DO put hispanics in with whites as perpetators. If so the WHITE murder rate is WAY overstated.
I excluded hispanics from the white numbers.
No. For the Hispanic murder rate, look to South America.
I’m not even sure how reliable crime stats can be any more with perhaps anything other than murder.
Like in the 90s, the recidivism (realest offense) rate for rape was ridiculously high. But that was before checking someone out with your eyeballs = rape.
Now people say recidivism for rape is low ...
Fortunately I answered the question and only covered murder...
No large Muslim population to encourage killing of other groups or Muslims who read the Koran differently.
Predominately Christian countries lead the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
I'm curious to see how many of the murders are practicing Christians.
That's sort of a "No True Scotsman" question...
I wonder what the Swiss rape numbers are? Probably lower than US.