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04/13/2008: "Violent crime in America"

Guns were used in nearly half of the slayings studied in the most comprehensive examination of violent deaths in the United States. More than half of those deaths were due to suicide while 30 percent were the result of homicide.

African-Americans and Native Americans were killed at rates about 50
percent higher than whites, while Asians had violent death rates
about 60 percent lower than whites.

The Hispanic violent death rate was about 15 percent lower than that
of whites.

http://www.physorg.com/news127111204.html

Gittoes' latest feature, Rampage, contrasts life for a family living in the blue-collar community of Brown Sub, Miami, with ongoing fighting in Iraq.

"It is much worse in Miami than it is in Baghdad," Gittoes said in Sydney today.

"Even left-wing Americans ... don't want to recognise the mess they've got in their own backyard," he said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20716640-1702,00.html