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Originally Posted by yubba
Fuer do you live here in Florida.???? I live just south of the space center, if you watch the news of central florida it is a combat zone, fact more americans die in central florida per day than any american war zone.
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That is funny because I live in Central Florida and I agree that certain areas are high crime but I hardly consider most of Central Florida to be a combat zone.I also have many good friends in law enforcement and emergency services and they don't jive with your statement either.I bet the area being spoken about in that article is around Ybor City (not sure dont live near Tampa/St.Petersburg) which has a higher than average crime rate.I have family members out that way though and they dont seem to be overly concerned about any "combat zone" and no one else will either if they stay away form any city in the worlds "wrong side of the tracks".
As a whole if you look at the FBI stats crime has gone down across the nation over the years despite an increase in population.The main reason parts of Florida have a higher rate is because of increased population(and LE needing to keep up with that) and because FL is a major drug trafficking state but still in FL the crime rate has been dropping over time.Also more and more people are moving south so the crime rate will also get higher down south but as populations increase so does the amount of LE it just takes a little longer.But to call Central Florida a combat zone is a rather massive over statement have you seen film of Iraq,Afghanistan,Vietnam or the drug cartels in Mexico? that is a combat zone Central Florida in nowhere near that. If you look at the FBIs data FL is rate is not the lowest but several sates such as Georgia have a higher percentage per population than FL.
States with a higher per 100,000 people violent crime rate than Florida:
Maine,Indiana,Wisconsin,Iowa,Kansas,Nebraska,North Dakota,Georgia,South Carolina,Alabama,Kentucky,Montana,New Mexico,Utah.
see for yourself:
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_04.html
FBI stats only reported crime but the ones that go unreported would only amount to much less than 1% more like 0.01% if even that.
I have a conceal carry permit by the way.Just saying this to disprove the gun owner being paranoid about violent crime stereotype.
Also local news media is all about getting viewers(if it bleeds it leads) so all they report is the bad news anyway.