From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >On 01-Aug-14 15:31, Sancho Panza wrote:   
   >>On 8/1/2014 10:27 AM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >>>On Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:12:55 PM UTC-4, spsffan wrote:   
      
   >>>>Of course, Pennsylvania itself is named after William Penn.   
      
   >>>IIRC, it's actually for Penn's father.  Penn himself objected to   
   >>>having something named for him as it violated his Quaker beliefs.   
      
   >>>"Philadelphia" stands for city of brotherly love, brought home   
   >>>every night on the local news with the shootings and carjackings of   
   >>>innocent little kids.   
      
   >>Maybe they should seek asylum in Texas.   
      
   >Texas's murder rate in 2011 and 2012 was the lowest since records began   
   >in the 1960s.  Other crimes are up vs the 1960s but still way down from   
   >the peaks in the late 1980s/early 1990s.   
      
   >Nationally, Pennsylvania is ranked low in rape, burglary and larceny but   
   >middle in murder and aggravated assault and high in robbery.   
      
   Statewide felony statistics lead one to just one inevitable conclusion:   
   That there is nothing to learn from comparisons of statewide crime statistics.   
      
   It's absurd of you to raise the issue, which is a non-issue.   
      
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