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Old 01-09-2008, 08:47 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Please compare population sizes, numbers of violent crimes and be aware that after you make your shocking discovery that the US puts rapes and sexual assaults into our violent crime statistics and the UK doesn't to add icing to your discovery.

I've done this before, I won't do your google homework for you this time.
You are being presumptuous and are missing the point. You wanted to take out a chunk of data to make an unequal comparison. Why is this?

Don't worry about my homework, I'm fine with it as always. Why not do yours? Are you going to answer my question or not? I would prefer statistics with a fair comparison, such as a rate per 1,000 or 100,000 people.

If you don't want to do this, then fine. It was a rhetorical question because your suggestion was weak. Why take gang violence out of the U.S. equation to compare it to the U.K. equation with it intact?
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