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The number of people killed in battle – calculated per 100,000 population – has dropped by 1,000-fold over the centuries as civilizations evolved.
-Before there were organized countries, battles killed on average more than 500 out of every 100,000 people.
-In 19th century France, it was 70.
-In the 20th century with two world wars and a few genocides, it was 60.
-But today battlefield deaths are down to three-tenths of a person per 100,000.
-The rate of genocide deaths per world population was 1,400 times higher in 1942 than in 2008.
-Murder in European countries has steadily fallen from near 100 per 100,000 people in the 14th and 15th centuries to about 1 per 100,000 people now.
-Murder within families. The U.S. rate of husbands being killed by their wives has dropped from 1.2 per 100,000 in 1976 to just 0.2. For wives killed by their husbands, the rate has slipped from 1.4 to 0.8 over the same time period.
-Rape in the United States is down 80 percent since 1973. Lynchings, which used to occur at a rate of 150 a year, have disappeared.
-Discrimination against blacks and gays is down, as is capital punishment, the spanking of children, and child abuse.
(Obama was correct "The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been.")
But it is miserable for fewer people than ever before- that is the point Obama was making! Not NO violence, but just FAR LESS than ever before. I don't know why that is so hard to understand?
And this would be why Iraq incursion by idiots with guns is to him no big thing. It shows him to be, yet again, wrong.
We'll remember the little moron said this next time some anti-gun liberal nutjob goes crazy over a shooting.
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Originally Posted by texan2yankee
Obama's statement is factually true, the world is less violent now than it has ever been. It is amusing that Obama made this claim just a day after he insisted that America is plagued “off the charts” gun violence and school shootings which happen “now once a week.” In fact, gun violence in America has been on the decline for decades.
I think Obama is just trolling conservatives. Every time he says something, anything, they go nuts posting their frothing rage that he exists far and wide. Even a relatively benign statement like this.
I really hope he makes a comment how breathing is good so conservatives will rage at it, and then boycott it.
At least then there will be some peace and quiet form the cranks.
He's not trolling for anything, he's taking credit.
You're surprised that people don't believe Obama? Seriously?
At this point, Obama has lied so many times that if he said it was raining during a hurricane I'd have to look out the window before I'd believe him.
Way to try and cover for the op who clearly didn't do his homework.
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