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  isshikitombiJul. 07, 2008 - 02:13PM JST

  *******It would be of great interest to me to see each of the fifty US states represented individually, then compared to the other countries of the world, including Japan. Why? Well, because many of the US states have populations larger than many countries, and because having visited 47 of the 50 I believe there are wide differences. After the Virginia Tech shooting, Newsweek published a map of the United States, with each state color coded into one of five colors according to the incidents of gun-related homicides. If my memory is correct, six states--Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Hawaii came out in the most peaceful group. The rates of gun-related homicides were considerably worse in the most unpeaceful group. I'm from one of those most peaceful states, though now living in Japan, and feel just as safe and peaceful there as I do in Japan!

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