The rate rises and falls, but the
US is always the world champion of murders. Its murder rate (c. 1991) was twice that of
Germany, 4x that of
Norway and the
UK, 5x that of
Sweden, 7x that of
Japan, and 12x that of
Finland; the disparities in armed robberies are even greater. Guns don't kill people,
Americans do. And it's the gift that keeps on giving - birth defects and stillborns in
Iraq, the US, and UK due to the
radioactivity of depleted-uranium weapons. And what of
Serbia?