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Originally posted by sgtclub
You are not looking at the same time periods I am. I am looking at the current state of affairs. I had to post data regarding CA for prior years because that is all that's available. And what's the population of CA? Iraq is roughly 25 million. While not exact, I think CA is in that neighborhood.
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How many people have been killed in bombings in the past week?
California has 35.4 million people, but I'm sure that makes no difference to you.
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The CA data doesn't contain much of this information either (e.g., missing/unknowns, wounded).
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The reason murder stats are cited so heavily in discussing crime rates is that there is very high confidence that nearly all murders are actually reported or discovered in the US. The picutre in a war zone is very different.
Similarly, the rate of wounded in a war is far, far higher than in even the most crime-ridden places. Or, do you think that the 16000 murders in the US translate into 50,000 people getting their limbs blown off?
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I don't know how you reach this conclusion. I posted data for CA, you argue US as a whole. I believe there were over 16,000 murders in the US in the last year available.
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The US has 12 times the population of Iraq. You think only 1200 Iraqis died in the war last year? I think it was far more than that -- and reliable sources already cited in this thread show far more than 16000, too.
