America and murder?
Firstly, this is a no-offence post... So anyone who trys to flame me for this, will get their post deleted by me. (I love how you can do that in blogs 
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Now, the point of this post/blog/whatever.
Is it me, or do all the mass murderers seem to be from America somewhere?
All famous mass murdering cases are from America, biggest two being Ed Gein, and Charles Manson.
Not only that, but also the media decideds to sit there, make films about it. Natural Born Killers is a good example, it is about a couple who go round America, and kill a total of 52 people.
But why America? Is there not something like this in other countries of the same size? Australia doesn't have any famous murder cases that come to mind, China, nope, India, nope, Japan, nope, England, not that I can think of, Germany, well, not since Hitler... There must be something about America.
Or maybe it is just where the most people are
(Oh, and the legalised guns)
Once again, no offence to America.
)Now, the point of this post/blog/whatever.
Is it me, or do all the mass murderers seem to be from America somewhere?
All famous mass murdering cases are from America, biggest two being Ed Gein, and Charles Manson.
Not only that, but also the media decideds to sit there, make films about it. Natural Born Killers is a good example, it is about a couple who go round America, and kill a total of 52 people.
But why America? Is there not something like this in other countries of the same size? Australia doesn't have any famous murder cases that come to mind, China, nope, India, nope, Japan, nope, England, not that I can think of, Germany, well, not since Hitler... There must be something about America.
Or maybe it is just where the most people are
(Oh, and the legalised guns)
Once again, no offence to America.
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The list of mass murderers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mass_murderers
Just a link which might enlighten you inquiry. Many of them are not American.
However, America may be the only country to litterally glamorize them, hence the impression that there are more of them in the United States. It's also a question of keeping records of them - many disorganized or third-world countries may not have such good ways of tracking said criminals.Posted 04-22-2009 at 12:50 PM by interesting 
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Very interesting, Interesting, you have shown a very good point.
The USA is a very large country, however, out of the first 173 (Random number, it is in sections though) the percentage is only 27.7% out of all the other counties.
Also relating to your point, this is most likely to be overly high, as many of them are not recorded in developing countries (not as well) so the rate will still most likely be lower.
And yes, it does seem that America glamourises its self a lot.
I got the idea for this theory, from a film trailer, it was a childerens comedy, but still made a very good point. It said "Once again, a spaceship has landed in America, the only country space ships ever seem to land in" Which has made me think a lot, and then I put 1+1 together (it sounds better) and got 27.7.
Posted 04-22-2009 at 01:22 PM by Smile
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The average percentage of American mass murders compared to the rest of the world is 38.2708%
That is quite high, but every mass murder case will be there, compared to un-heard of cases in developing countries.Posted 04-22-2009 at 02:05 PM by Smile
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Query: where do you get these numbers exactly? Are they specifically on the link I put up or do you get them from elsewhere?
It's just that 43.1% of all statistics are usually made up on the spot.... (oh! the irony! I couldn't resist!)Posted 04-22-2009 at 02:19 PM by interesting
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xD
Nope, these numbers are from the sections of wikipedia, I counted the number of them that said U.S and then I divided it by the total number, timesd it by 100, and I got the percentage for each section.
27.7
29.6
4.7
31.3
30.2
54.1
42.8
There they are above^.
However, you will most likely be thinking "4.7 is a complete outlier, what is it doing there?"
Well, I added together the total number of mass murder on each individual list, which was 480, added all the numbers in the above list which was 183.7, and divided it by 480, once again, timesed by 100, and got my main average
(Yes, they are all rounded to the most appropriate number)
So yes, I don't make up false numbers
(Oh, and I stored all the numbers in notepad, just because I couldn't remember them, and I havn't closed the window yet)
Also, they better not be on the link!!! I spent ages on themPosted 04-22-2009 at 02:36 PM by Smile
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Well there was a genocide in Darfur and the Holocaust. Mass murder! Not in America!
Posted 04-22-2009 at 06:57 PM by fork
