bpuharic wrote:

anyone know what 'defend ourselves' means? we have the highest murder
rate in the developed world

how's that defense thingie working out?

Uh, no. We do NOT have the highest "homicide" rate of developed countries.
We're (let me count, mumble-mumble, carry the three...), ah, forty-sixth in
homicide rates. Admittedly, some of the countries ahead of us are less than
fully developed, but the list does include:
* Jamaica
* Belize
* Brazil
* Ecuador
* Mexico
* Costa Rica
* Lithuania
* Turkey
* Agrentina

Which no one could classify as anything but "developed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._homicide_rate