In article <p20tc5xtek.ln2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Nate Edel writes:
>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.
More quibbling. Presumably, if none of the murderers were ever locked up,
at least some of them would continue murdering, thus raising the murder
rate above its current value.
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Michael F. Stemper
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