“If you compare white populations, we have the same murder rate as Belgium” – Ann Coulter. Media Matters spotted Ann Coulter expressing this particular nugget of the pseudo-scientific racism for which Coulter is known. But they didn’t provide a link to figures to disprove it. So I thought I would track them down and the result is rather surprising. In a nutshell: Coulter is right, about Belgium — and only Belgium – but wrong about the rest of western Europe, which has a lot lower murder rate than even our “white” murder rate (see figures below). So if Ann Coulter wants to play the race-baiting game, perhaps she can explain to us why white Americans are so much more murderous than western Europeans, who are also mostly white. Hint: It’s their guns. Read more http://americablog.com/2013/01/ann-coulter-murder-america-belgium.html
Re: Coulter: “If you compare white populations, we have the same murder rate as Belgi According to this database: http://projects.wsj.com/murderdata/?mg=inert-wsj#view=all&vr=B&vs=M&w=f Murders of black male victims using firearms was about 1/3 of all the homicides in the US from 2000 to 2010. This includes all the homicides not involving firearms. Of these 53,850 murders, 36,752 were committed by african-americans.
