Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If no government had ever locked up any murderer, how long would it
> take all the free-lance and gang killers -- Charles Manson's "family,"
> the DC snipers, Ted Bundy, the Unabomber, Tim McVeigh, the Son of
> Sam, Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Mafia, MS-13, the
> Bloods, the Crips, etc. -- to approach this total? Even if none of
> them were ever stopped by any of their would-be victims, I expect it
> would take thousands of years.
I doubt it would take that long; with the current murder rate in the US
alone, there are about 15,000 murders a year in the US. That would be 600
years to reach 9 million. If we assume(*) that the US murder rate is the
world average, we reach that number in 30 years (given a very rough
estimage
of the world population as 6 billion and the US as 300 million.)
(* hardly a safe assumption, I grant.)
> Nothing that the Nazi regime did should be accorded any official
> respect or legitimacy.
Despite the numeric quibble above, I'm in general agreement with that.
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