Homicide

I subscribe to a free service that delivers, in their words, "eclectic little excerpts delivered to your email every day." It's called Delancey Place and I really enjoy the diversity and depth of the entertaining, informative, and thought provoking material they send. Today's email really hit me hard. The article quoted from a report by Jill Lepore (in the November 9, 2009 New Yorker) utilizes research and theories formulated by author Richard Roth to explain why the United States has the highest homicide rate of any affluent democracy.

Since the article is not yet up on the site (the archive lags the emails by several weeks) I am going to quote it here with attribution as noted above. I ask you to think about the last paragraph in context of the many problems we face...in addition to violent crime.