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You make some good points in your post . Over all murder rate is kind of gross over view of the issue but a eazy one to make a quick point with. Another flaw in my post was using the Detroit crime stats and it is the " Murder capital" of the USA . I should have used a coastal town of the same size. We can dig down a bit with the data for a more complete picture. You brought up a few good contextual points. " school children;" that would be ZERO for Detroit on 2025 ( only 12 in the USA last year) victims killed while " scripture-studying:" ZERO, " law-abiding," 20-30% , as 70 -80 % of murder in Detroit , like Z are drug/crime related, ," charity-giving people" ,UNKNOWN , " mons while caring for they children UNKNOWN" teachers" ZERO. I think my point still stands , that peoples "feeling" in the south people think that the north is more dangerous and the northerns think the south is , doesn't stand up to the data and is more a factor of the media affecting out " feelings". Our exposer to murder or other crimes has a lot to do with our race , class , and social standing and these are fluid depending on our location, north or south. You are correct to think this contextual information is important. Fun side note , the #1 cause of non criminal murders is sleeping with the neighbors wife.,or "crimes of passion" Anther case of being where you shouldn't be ..jaj….