Homicide Rates Quotes

The United States homicide rate without guns is higher than most European country’s homicide rates including guns.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

The towns such as the cattle towns that disarmed young men lowered the rates of personal violence considerably. Those towns … that did not disarm men tended to bury significantly more of them.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

The West was extraordinarily violent in the mid-19th century, and it continued to be more homicidal than the rest of the United States until the 1930s.