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>It's not even a rounding error in our national murder rate. We are currently at over 20,000 murders per year in the US But... we aren't talking about the US?
by verve_rat 3y ago
>It's not even a rounding error in our national murder rate. We are currently at over 20,000 murders per year in the US
But... we aren't talking about the US?
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/murder-homicide-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/murder...
See that big spike at the end there? That's white identity extremism. The deadliest crime in NZ history, the one event that more than doubled NZs murder
rate that year, was white identity extremism. It might be a bit of a problem.
- pseudo0 3y agoThat tends to happen when you have a small population and an outlier event occurs in a given year... Your entire country is the size of a large US city. If you calculated NYC's murder rate and included 9/11, it would also be pretty abysmal in 2001.
- verve_rat 3y agoAn the US reacted to 9/11 with a bunch of law changes among other things. A large event had an impact. Honestly, I don't see what you are trying to point out?
- pseudo0 3y ago9/11 got us the Patriot Act, the TSA, an invasion of a completely unrelated country that killed around 600,000 people, and a few trillion dollars in unnecessary military spending. Knee-jerk responses generally don't end well, speaking from experience.