“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope in the fact that among millions of decent, hard-working people there are only a few plague-ridden individuals, who do untold harm by appealing to the dark, dangerous drives of the armored average man and mobilizing him for political murder. There is but one antidote to the average man’s predisposition to plague: his own feelings for true life. The life force does not seek power but demands only to play its full and acknowledged part in human affairs. It manifests itself through love, work and knowledge.”
From “Listen Little Man”, by Wilhelm Reich, 1945
THE DATA
From 1991 to 2024, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 50%, from an all-time high 9.82 per 100,000 to 4.9 per 100,000.
From 1991 to 2023, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 41.9%, from an all-time high 9.82 per 100,000 to 5.7 per 100,000.
From 1991 to 2023, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by an annual average of 1.3%.
From 1991 to 2022, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 35.8%, from an all-time high 9.82 per 100,000 to 6.3 per 100,000.
From 1991 to 2022, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by an annual average of 1.2%.
From 1991 to 2021, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by an annual average of 1%.
From 1991 to 2021, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 30.8%, from an all-time high 9.82 per 100,000 to 6.8 per 100,000.
In 1991, the homicide rate in the United States was 9.82 per 100,000, the all-time high.
From 2021 to 2022, the 7.5% decrease in gun murders in the United States was 1.4% greater than the 7.4% decrease in the homicide rate there.
From 2021 to 2022, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 7.4%, from 6.8 per 100,000 to 6.3 per 100,000.
From 2021 to 2022, the 7.4% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States was 640% greater, or more than seven times greater than its 1% average annual decrease from 1991 to 2021.
The homicide rate in the United States is decreasing exponentially, going forward in time.
That’s because the health of the ether is inexorably improving, and moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
From 2021 to 2022, gun murders in the United States decreased by 7.5%, from 6.7 per 100,000 to 6.2 per 100,000.
In 2021, there were 6.7 gun murders per 100,000 people in the United States.
In 2021, the homicide rate in the United States was 6.8 per 100,000.
From 2022 to 2023, the 9.6% decrease in gun murders in the United States was 1% greater than the 9.5% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States.
From 2022 to 2023, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 9.5%, from 6.3 per 100,000 to 5.7 per 100,000.
From 2022 to 2023, gun murders in the United States decreased by 9.6%, from 6.2 per 100,000 to 5.6 per 100,000.
From 2022 to 2023, the 9.6% decrease in gun murders in the United States was 27.9% greater, or almost one third greater than their 7.5% decrease from 2021 to 2022.
Gun murders in the United States are decreasing exponentially, going forward in time.
That’s because the health of the ether is inexorably improving, and moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
From 2022 to 2023, the 9.5% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States was 28.4% greater, or almost one third greater than its 7.4% decrease from 2021 to 2022.
From 2022 to 2023, the 9.5% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States was 691.6% greater, or basically seven times greater than its 1.2% average annual decrease from 1991 to 2022.
The homicide rate in the United States is decreasing exponentially, going forward in time.
That’s because the health of the ether is inexorably improving, and moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
In 2022, there were 6.2 gun murders per 100,000 people in the United States.
In 2022, the homicide rate in the United States was 6.3 per 100,000.
From 2023 to 2024, the homicide rate in the United States decreased by 15.8%, from 5.7 per 100,000 to 4.8 per 100,000.
From 2023 to 2024, the 15.8% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States was 66.3% greater, or two thirds greater than its 9.5% decrease from 2021 to 2022.
From 2023 to 2024, the 66.3% positive variance in the decrease in the homicide rate in the United States versus 2022 to 2023 was 133.4% greater, or two and one third times greater than its 28.4% positive variance from 2022 to 2023 versus 2021 to 2022.
From 2023 to 2024, the 15.8% decrease in the homicide rate in the United States was 1,115.4% greater, or more than twelve times greater than its 1.3% average annual decrease from 1991 to 2023.
The homicide rate in the United States is decreasing exponentially, going forward in time.
That’s because the health of the ether is inexorably improving, and moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
In 2023, the homicide rate in the United States was 5.7 per 100,000.
In 2023, there were 5.6 gun murders per 100,000 people in the United States.
In 2024, the homicide rate in the United States was 4.8 per 100,000.
Jeff Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, March 21, 2025
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