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Originally Posted by buggyone
I called the article a piece of ridiculousness with the talk of sheep and sheepdogs. Let the trained police officers do their jobs.
What about the alleged claim of 6 per 100,000 per year murders? I have not seen 24 murders in The Villages in the 4 years I have lived here. What about the claim of 4 per 1000 aggravated assaults per year? I have not seen 1600 in the 4 years.
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You're putting us on...........right? As if you really don't get it.
1. The Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdog story is a literary device. It is called an analogy. Closely related are allegories and parables. Such devices are used in books that include writings by Hemingway, Melville, Orwell, Bunyan and C.S. Lewis......all great authors.
2. When the Colonel quoted the murder rate of 6 per 100,000 he was talking about
the average for the United States at that time, not a little slice called The Villages. You take the statistics from the entire country to establish the
average. I assure you the per capita murder rate for Chicago (18.5) is much higher than here, but both are included in the average.
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the point he was making was, "...that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another."
3. Incidentally, the figures are in for 2012, and the murder rate per 100,00 is down to 4.7. The murder rate has been trending downward for several years. Many scholars attribute this reduction to the large number of states that have instituted "must issue" laws regarding concealed weapon licenses. Criminals are now more apprehensive that their prospective victims might be armed so there are fewer confrontations.