Reply #3: Never heard of anybody killing anybody over the Jonah tale. Gotta link?

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It's true that nearly half of US homicides involve an argument, but those arguments typically aren't about religion: they're about sex or drugs -- or something trivial

A petty urban argument - then a homicide
Violent crime rises in many U.S. cities
By Kate Zernike
Published: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006

MILWAUKEE: One woman here killed a friend after they argued over a brown silk dress. A man killed a neighbor whose 10-year-old son had mistakenly used his dish soap. Two men argued over a cellphone, and pulling out their guns, the police say, killed a 13-year-old girl in the cross-fire ... Suspects tell the police they had killed someone who "disrespected" them or a family member, or someone who was "mean-mugging" them, which police loosely translate as giving a dirty look ... "When we ask, 'Why did you shoot this guy?' it's, 'He bumped into me,' 'He looked at my girl the wrong way,"' said Sylvester Johnson, police commissioner of Philadelphia. "It's not like they're riding around doing drive-by shootings. It's arguments - stupid arguments over stupid things" ... http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/12/news/crime.php

Some info at: http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm