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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 6

    FBI 2017 Murder stats just released. Slight decrease in homicide rate after 2 years of increases. Now a bit less than 2008 rate (which was the lowest in 40 years).https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/murder …

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      1. Walker Wells‏ @VWalkerWells Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I call this objectively good news, and hope people of all political persuasions will enjoy it.

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      1. Curt Doolittle‏ @curtdoolittle Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Sedentary education, Cheap High Fat Food, MSG, Marijuana, 100 years of accumulated entertainment media, Video Games, Free Online Pornography, Easy Sex: Obese, Sedated, Entertained, Low Testosterone, Low Sperm Count, Disenfranchised, Over-Incarcerated, System Monitored, Males.

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      2. Dug dug‏ @Dugdug2 Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Trump Wins again!

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      1. Mehfoos Yacoob‏ @mehfoos Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Ever considered starting a newspaper with just the good news? I can think of a dozen candidate names haha

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      1. Guns&Sandwitches‏ @GunsnSandwitchs Oct 6
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        pic.twitter.com/kOKNmfZ4wa

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      1. Darwin's Money‏ @EverydayFinance Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Trump even reversed the murder rate LOL (that’s what he’d say). #Winning

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      1. @realnonnamari‏ @realnonnamari Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        I wonder who was president between 2008 and 2016?

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      1. Gyeff‏ @Gyeff Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is why we need 4 more years. #FourMoreYears

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      2. Daniel Pincus‏ @danpincus Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Please, just don’t become Dr. Pangloss.

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      1. JBP‏ @HotSemibreves Oct 7
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        Huh? Doesn't this say that in 2017 it was 17.3% higher than the 2008 rate?pic.twitter.com/62mVzLWUMc

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      2.  🇨🇦 🇺🇸‏ @CameronGabbs15 Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        So even with mass murders and Chicago, #Trump gets another check mark in the win column. Fked up world we live in. Less murders is a good thing. #notPC

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      4.  🇨🇦 🇺🇸‏ @CameronGabbs15 Oct 7
        Replying to @wowsoclever1234

        And?

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      2. Paul 🌹‏ @Boohan33 Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        You’re insufferable! Your reporting of these long term statistics does nothing. Please feel free to use your voice to address major problems in America today i.e. creeping fascism, climate change, presidential incompetence, and the war on democracy.

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      3. Dopededo‏ @dopededo Oct 7
        Replying to @Boohan33 @sapinker

        You’re unhinged

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      2. Ilkka Huotari‏ @ilkkah Oct 6
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        But it's high for a Western country.

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      3. SinEater‏ @_Sin_Eater_ Oct 7
        Replying to @ilkkah @sapinker @CHSommers

        Nope. It would be high for a Western country if all of the other Western countries were connected by a land bridge to *the* most violent countries in the world and were of reasonable comparison because of that. All the other Western countries are isolated from violent countries.

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      4. Milan Cirkovic‏ @MilanCirkovic3 Oct 7
        Replying to @_Sin_Eater_ @ilkkah and

        Ahahahaha, I guess the problem is geology now - land bridge with Russia, by many criteria more violent country than Mexico doesn't count, obviously, and crime is clearly frightened by that huge ocean expanse which are Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bosporus, etc.

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      5. SinEater‏ @_Sin_Eater_ Oct 8
        Replying to @MilanCirkovic3 @ilkkah and

        Sure, Jan. The criteria you are using is for the political actions of the country, not the level of violence within it. If water isn't an issue, you should have no problem excluding UK and Australia from your stats.

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      6. Milan Cirkovic‏ @MilanCirkovic3 Oct 8
        Replying to @_Sin_Eater_ @ilkkah and

        Murder rate (per 100,000 population): Russia - 10.82 Norway - 0.5 Finland - 1,42 Numbers are very, very clear. Nothing to do with politics.

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      7. Milan Cirkovic‏ @MilanCirkovic3 Oct 8
        Replying to @MilanCirkovic3 @_Sin_Eater_ and

        Further. Crime safety index: Russia - 56.37 (no. 60 of 117 countries surveyed) Norway - 65.36 Finland - 77.36 (no. 11 of 117 countries surveyed)

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      8. SinEater‏ @_Sin_Eater_ Oct 8
        Replying to @MilanCirkovic3 @ilkkah and

        How *many* of the top ten countries in that scale are in South America?

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