Homicide Rate of US

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Every Year, US Department of State publishes human right record of the world. Every year, China publishes defense of its record and its own human right abuse of the United States.

China routinely denounces high rates of crime--in particular homicide in US, which sounds scary.

Unfortunately, China's is a half of America's. China's is comparatively high?
No doubt about it. See

List of countries by intentional homicide rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

For years (200 and onwards), America's rates have been 5.4-5.7 per 100,000,
compared with China's 2.36 for 2006 (the only year it reported data)--and
with world champion Columbia's (>60), Honduras' (58), Russia's (19).

This web page does not include Taiwan. But Taiwan's source indicates, "2005
年，美國每十萬人有 5.6 起兇殺案，而台灣有 3.97 起。"

It is generally legal for a civilian to carry firearms in US, but not in
Taiwan. However, homicide by firearms accounts for just two third of
homicides in US. (Taiwanese use something else.)






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