10-30-2009, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Johnson County, Kansas
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I thought it seemed a little off, I see all of Canada had 611 homicides in 08, with a 33,212,696 pop, so .0000184% (1.84 per 100K), where we had a rate of 5.4 per hundred thousand, pop 304,059,724, so 16,419 = .000054% rate.
Boy we live in dangerous societies 
Did I get the math right? Although a big difference % wise it still seems to be such small numbers as to be fairly insignificant.
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I doubt that it was insignificant to the families of those 16,419. Just sayin'
Regards,
D-Ray
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