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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
According to FBI crime statistics, 4.8 Americans per 100,000 were murdered in the US in 2010. The US State Department reports that 120 Americans of the 5.7 million who visited Mexico last year were murdered, which is a rate of 2.1 of 100,000 visitors. Regardless of whether they were or weren’t connected to drug trafficking, which is often not clear, it’s less than half the US national rate.

I got no bone in this debate, but I will note that your statistical comparison does not appear to account for the length of time in each place. If we accepts your wording, you are comparing a full 52 weeks of the Americans' life, regardless of location, with the period of time of the average American visit to Mexico, which even considering ex-pats who live there all year, I would assume to be lower than two weeks. If you multiply the two weeks times 26 to equalize, you would see that the risk was way higher during those two weeks than the average risk of Americans in general[/quote]

Well you would have to compare the murder rate while on vacation of Americans- some thing like the rate of murder for all Americans while on vacation per 100,000 vs the murder rate for American while on vacation in Mexico per 100k. I think it would be nice to see some socio-economic class break down to sort out the American drug runners who are murdered while on "vacation".[/quote]

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