Does anybody not know that the US murder rate is higher than any other country in the world? Google it. Check it out for yourselves. While we mourned the 3,000 killed in the 911 attacks, 20,000 others were murdered during the same year. We kill off approximately 100,000 people in the US every ten years. Now that’s a crime. What do we do about it? Nothing really. If we told President Bush those statistics, he’d probably declare war on us, or, maybe Canada. After all, he went after Iraq for no real reason in order to avenge the 911 killings and in great fear that those evil doers might come after him again, and in the process probably a half a million people lost their lives (although we are trying every way possible to cover up those statistics).

Speaking of statistics, we have to recognize that some countries do not keep track of their murders: countries in Africa principally. Among the places in the world that do keep track of murders is Puerto Rico. That’s the only place with a higher murder rate than the US, but we own them! So they are really us.

Guns are the big culprit. Nations without guns have fewer deaths. If we eliminated the guns, murderers would have a harder time killing their victims. Yet we are too afraid to even try to get some of the guns off the streets. Unfortunately, our new hero, Obama, said the other day that he would do nothing about the gun problem.

It’s depressing, isn’t it?