>> >> Well, New York's murder rate is double Moscow's.
not anymore. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/153988.stm
>> >
>> > Hey, but it's less than half what it was a decade ago!
>>
>>Must be because of all those new strict gun laws.
>>
>>Oh, wait.
>
>Seriously, what's the likely cause? Murders in Russia are almost always
>domestic violent (guy gets drunk, has argument with wife, stabs her with
>kitchen knife, doesn't remember it the next morning).
something seriously wrong with that! --- Russia has a huge domestic violence problem, esp. in villages. Almost all vodka-fueled (and, in the villages, despair). Very ugly.