Because that part of the sentence is in reference to the subject of "gun/murder numbers" and it says you turned up with out anything, then I am left to see that you did not find any gun/murder numbers.
You really should read my posts. I didn't find anything at all on gun
and or murder numbers. I then went on to comment that the overall
crime rate in China is slightly lower than in the US. I have no idea what the murder rate is in China.
Documentation or Classification practices involving the dissapearance of some one or the witness of their death being different.
There's no way that the murder rate in the US is so high compared to other countries simply because of documentation discrepencies.
Greed influencing people who are allready at will to beat some one to be correct also willing to murder some one for their money.
That influences murder rates in general, but is in no way specific to the US.
A mixture of several different social classes and belief systems which varies depending on the age of the person and the education they recieved, as well as how strong the parents keep their values with their children.
Many other countries have ethnic diversity than the US (in some cases, more), and yet don't have enormous murder rates. Canada, UK, an Japan, to name a few. And parental values, are again, nonspecific to the US.
Media portrayal of a "normal" persons life.
It's definitely not trendy to kill. People don't run out and take lives to be part of the in-crowd. (Or any crowd, at that.)
Lack of fear of punishment and the old "killing in the heat of passion" idea, or the "I was temporarily insane at the time because Satan told me to" or other such excuse often used to cover some ass.
A common misconception about the insanity plead is that it lets the accused get off free. In nearly all cases, the accused is condemned to a mental facility to the rest of their lives with no chance of ever getting out. As for passion, that is a viable argument. Premeditated murders and walking in on your wife of twenty years having an affair are two different things, and should be charged as such.
The thought structure of the people in a society ultimately governs the mass of what happens.
Again, not specific to the US. This contributes to murder rates everywhere.
The laws involved in regulating people.
Laws are something that are enforced more in Canada and the US than most other countries, like Russia or China.
The way people respond to living the way they think they want to live because "by god this is a free country."
I can't see people thinking that they have the right to kill because it's a free country. That may influence other actions, but I don't see murder as one of them.
Finally I think this one is a little out there, but I figured I would add it any way... The legal system and lawers can often make the Jury think that some one MEANT to kill a pedestrian with their car (even if it was an accident) by calling it "manslaughter".
Manslaughter, in layman's terms, means accidental murder. Juries know that. They aren't swayed just because the charge has the word "slaughter" in it.
