Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 15, 2013
Transcript:
Goat: I want to live in the Netherlands... their murder rate is so low. Pig: Why is that? Rat: Because it's hard to sneak up on people with you're wearing wooden shoes. Pig: That's so true. Goat: No it's not. Rat: Why do you think they never win the 100 meter dash?
It is just a matter of what is considered a violent crime that makes us in the US look better than we are. For one example, in the United Kingdom extortion is considered a violent crime. When you look at just murders from guns we are by far the most violent people in the world sad to say.