is Mise,
Even more astonishing is the fact that most humans die of old age & the fact we die at all.

Hey Canem Malum,
"Everyone uses the tools at their disposal to get more stuff- whether men, women or children. Some are just more powerful in their sphere. A swordsman wants to get sword distance from the archer because that puts him into the more powerful position. Most will avoid conflict when it's not in their interest. Sometimes they don't understand what is in their interest."

I see similarities in that Men are Swordsman and Women are Archers.
Men want to get in there and be a part of the active confrontation.
It's part of our competitive nature, our pride and our general circuitry.

Women, have less strength and physical attributes to work with so they fight from a distance like the archers.

Women learn how to fight from an inferior position.
The art of fighting without fighting;
Non-confrontational fighting;

- When you stand back and cop the crap with a smile on your face;
All the while slowly moving the pieces on the chessboard in the background until suddenly all you have to do is push one tiny little domino over and the whole house comes crumbling down;

And they never suspected you did it;
- Because boys don't fight that way.

Is Mise,

The following link may help clarify things:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/family-secrets/201801/we-live-in-culture-violence

Hey ttbn,
"Was it ever revealed what John Howard actually did - if anything at all?"
"The only thing I heard was that "he stayed with the woman"."

I'm not sure if more was revealed;
But I haven't heard any more to it.

"Seems to me that he 'prevented' nothing at all."
- It seems that way to me too.

You'd think that just the pure shock of John Howard turning up in the middle of a row would be enough to calm the parties down temporarily...
So either the woman didn't mind his presence and attacked the man anyway;
- meaning JH prevented nothing;
Or he turned up after the action had already unfolded.

It would be interesting to hear the full story;
- Just for the sake of amusement and curiosity....

There's no point in beating around the bush. Violence arises & is perpetuated from discrimination against your own.
Discrimination arises from greed by those who already have more from exploiting others.
Greed is a result from a lack of respect & discipline.
We need a national Service asap to arrest this dreadful trend. Govt must reward people for effort instead of persecuting them.
We desperately need a political force to keep the two long established powers in check. Vote Independent for the sake of this Nation. Think before you vote !

Foxy,

Very informative,

"Moreover, the United States is the country with most arms per capita. Four out of seven persons possess a gun in their home or lives in a home in which someone possesses a gun. Approximately 97,820 people are wounded yearly as a result of a firearm – 268 a day. It was also found that, between 2012 and 2016, there were around 35,000 gun-related deaths: 21,600 were suicides and 12,800 were victims of homicide."

and despite the above, or because of it, the murder rate in the US is falling, now you have a look at Mexico, which has draconian firearms laws, and the murder rate is many times that of the US, and rising, and the actual number is much higher than that for the US, despite having a much smaller population.

Los Cabos City has a murder rate per 100,000 of 111.33, whilst the worst in the USA is St Louis with 65.83.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

More guns mean less crime.

How're you going with the definition of industrialized nations?