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    Quote Originally Posted by ICantSpellDawg View Post
    Your aggravated assault rate is more than double the rate in the US. I hope that the US takes a different route to crime reduction from the one that the Europeans have. Imagine what your countrie's would look like if you had a massive population of off the boat total morons, their kids, and inner city blacks. We have that here. They arent responsible for all of the murders, but they are responsible for MOST. Do you know how crazy that is?
    That's because the data is messed up. It's the data for minor, "normal" and aggrevated assult combined, since they aren't split up in the data. That's about 80.000-85.000 (data taken from Brå).
    From those, about 2.500 needs to stay at the hospital. I'm missing the weapon threats, to get the proper comparision. But I can do an estimate:

    In the US aggrevated assult is weapon threat and/or hospital stay for more than two days.

    FBI got the stats for weapon used and the total number of aggrevated assults. In about 25% of the cases, it's done using only the human body (more common than firearms). We know that 100% of those victims ended up in the hospital, since it wouldn't be aggrevated otherwise. Now using that number will miss everyone that got severly wounded by a weapon, but gives us an upper limit on those threatened by weapons, but not seriously wounded.

    Multiply 2.500 hospital visits by 4 and you'll get an upper limit of 10.000. It's probably around 5.000-7.500 in reality.
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