You're being downmodded for making assertions which are either false or meaningless. I can't quite figure out which just yet. In case you're still under the im

You're being downmodded for making assertions which are either false or meaningless. I can't quite figure out which just yet. In case you're still under the impression that the US is a particularly high-crime country, check out http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/images/graph05.jpg http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/images/graph05.jpg. The grey bars show that the US is safer than an awful lot of other developed countries including the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland (!), Switzerland (!), Belgium and Australia. And that's not even counting undeveloped countries, which tend to have much higher crime than developed ones.