[Fuusm-l] Rev. Dr. Felix Burrow's remarks on American Violence

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Randy,

    Thanks for this information. Very revealing.


---- Randall Kidder via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> I found his comments enlightening, and thought-provoking. I decided to look
> up where the United States places in a ranking of world violence
> statistics. Naturally, depending on the source or year, stats will vary
> somewhat, however there is a general trend and the reality is unsettling to
> say the least. Following are just a few of the results I found. Keep in
> mind that there are currently 195 countries in the world.
> 
> indexmundi.com - as of 2017 the USA ranked 55th in intentional homicides
> per 100, 000 people.
> 
> worldpopulationreview.com - USA is 36th as far as violence in 2020. This
> can be further broken down into types of violence.
> 
> 10news.com - USA ranks 13th on the list of the 15 most dangerous countries
> in which to live. (Or die as the case may be).
> 
> And as a bonus statistic, as many of you probably know, the USA has the
> highest incarceration rate in the entire world, with 655/100,000 in prison
> as of June, 2020; thanks in part to the so-called War On Drugs, Three
> Strikes and Your Out laws, automatic sentencing (depriving judges of the
> capacity to consider extenuating circumstances), and privitization of more
> and more prisons thereby reducing the prison system to a profit-making
> enterprise which demands by its nature to fulfill quotas, and using (read,
> selling) prisoners as slaves to companies to use for whatever purpose.
> Capitalism run amok.
> 
> A further consideration of violence. There are only 14 countries that have
> still retained the right to execute criminals according to
> worldpopulationreview.com, the USA is one of them. This is only about 7.2%,
> out of 195 countries.  So, 181 countries no longer honor the practice. It
> begs the question, WHY?!  It is no secret that our criminal justice system
> is plagued by obvious and unabashed racial and economic biases. And
> consider that an alarming number of inmates have been exonerated due to
> later DNA evidence either after having served years, even decades of prison
> sentences, or after having been wrongfully executed.
> 
> No further comment necessary.
> 
> 
> 
> Randall Kidder

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