Why are we so safe?

[sirs]

Our rate of violent death is considerably less than the world average , less than 1/6 of any of the bottom twenty.

WOW.....I was not aware of that.  And when you consider how many people in this country own firearms, makes that statistic all the more stellar.  thanks for sharing that, Plane   

[Plane]

Our rate of violent death is considerably less than the world average , less than 1/6 of any of the bottom twenty.

WOW.....I was not aware of that.  And when you consider how many people in this country own firearms, makes that statistic all the more stellar.  thanks for sharing that, Plane   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

This is just my interpretation of the tables on that website.

Before you call these factoids "facts" look at the source and evaluate the level of precision.

The level of precision is exactly loose, but all the estimates everywhere are like this.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Alternatively Judeo -Christian ethic tradition.(Jews deserve top billing) The Jews are responsible for all the godly kind of violence in the Bible. So maybe in this context they deserve top billing.

The alternative does not sound right: Christo-Judean?   

The Japanese seem to have a much less violent tradition. Shinto is basically ancestor worship, and deceased ancestors are as nonviolent as one can get.