----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Who is the sheriff?
> Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > IMO, that doesn't make the joke acceptable. I do understand where > > you're coming from, but I still disagree. There isn't a stated "goal" > > of male Americans raping and murdering women either but you won't see me > > joking about that (hopefully extremely) rare occurrence for any reason. > > Not as rare as you'd like to think. :( > > According to _The Gift of Fear_ by Gavin de Becker, 75 women are raped every > hour, on average, and the number of women killed by boyfriends & husbands > every month exceeds the death toll of a jumbo jet going down and killing > everyone on board. The murder numbers are high. Assuming a jumbo jet carries 350 people, that's 4200/year. At the US department of justice site the number is given at about 1250 for 2000. The rape numbers assume that only about 1 in 8 rapes are reported. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/homtrnd.htm Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
