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I want to make sure I understand your argument. You're suggesting you're more likely to be murdered by a mugger in the US than in Colombia?

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Thats actually a well known phenomenon - in countries where kidnapping is widespread, the kidnapper is a 'businessman', they are not there to kill people and they evade justice and keep low-ish profile.

By contrast in US crininals know they will likely spend many years in jail

It's factually incorrect and easy to verify by comparing murder rates. Colombia's murder rate is 8x higher than the US. Stating that you're more likely to be murdered in the US than Colombia is ridiculous.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Colombia/U...

Yes, Colombian guy was polite.

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