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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….

Again, you're applying U.S. measurements to Mexico, and I strongly disagree with your take on my "feelings". My "feelings" have been spot on since I lived on St. Croix where the Fountain Valley Massacre essentially killed tourism on St. Croix to this day. You'll have to read the various search results on that incident, because no single one tells the story that I know. My mother worked for Bill Kunstler when he came to defend the murderers, and that was unfortunately the beginning of the end of our life on St. Croix. In other events there, close friends were murdered. St. Croix never recovered. Hurricanes didn't help. I was also here in Zihuatanejo during the Guerra Sucia. Stats can't even come close to describing the situation there nor here. Oh, and Statistics was a class I excelled at in college.

Y'all have a nice day now!