A little Geography [View All]

[Stilgar]

I wont go into all the other stuff because no one will beleive even independent surveys or Australian statistics.

What this is for is to show that comparisons between the US and Australia are very hard to make. Now its easy to say the population of Texas and Australia are the same (both near 20 million) so murder the number of murders should be similar. WRONG.
First we need to account for size with the population, meaning Density. Even though most of Australia is the outback, the coastline is very long, spreading people out. To fix this you need to concentrate on an area that is more poplulated, like New South Whales(NSW). But at nearly the same land size as Texas, NSW only has 6 million people. Density is still way off. And since increasing density raises crime rates, and at similar sizes, Texas still has 12 million more people than NSW. There still can be no comparison.
So I rely on groups that all they do is factor in models to correct for these things. Not emails, not snopes, not the NRA, or the brady bunch. I check the source of the report. If the source is reputable then the report should be trusted.
Like an independent International organization that gathered surveys from 17 countries, carried out by each country and turned in to be compiled. Rated Australia worst and the UK second worst in number of crimes per person. Aus had 30% of its population say they were a victim of one a number of crimes like blackmail, theft, and assault.

Here is a quick map showing Texas' population density with Australia's. And yes Texas is at the same scale as Australia.
http://www.wiztechs.com/knightsrealm/proof.htm