Originally Posted by
Barry Shnikov
I suspect even 1.2 million as 'brutal life changing crime' is high.
To put it in perspective, that would be one person in every forty suffering as the victimof a 'brutal life changing crime' each year, with one person in two being a victim after only two decades.
A violent crime includes everything from simple assault through to rape and murder. A simple assault can consist of nothing worse than a slap. Highly objectionable, to be sure, and something up with which we should not put, but hardly something to place on the same level as 'rape torture and murder'.
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