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

[Chris Hoke]

Thank you, Randall, for researching further into the topic. How sad and tragic for the USA. A real eye-opener.
I may post this on FB. 

Chris

> On Aug 31, 2020, at 6:29 AM, Megan Krivchenia via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l at fuusm.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the information....so sad.
> Megan Krivchenia
> 
> On Sunday, August 30, 2020, 08:31:13 PM EDT, gbanz42--- via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l at fuusm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Randy,
> 
>     Thanks for this information. Very revealing.
> 
> 
> ---- Randall Kidder via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l at fuusm.org <mailto: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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