Since #Trump pardoned every member of the #J6 mob, 33 out of the approximately 1,500 released have been convicted of other #violent #crimes, a rate of 2.2%.
Elsenet, sumdood is arguing that this is no big deal because, and I quote, "The national violent crime rate is 4.4%." He argues that therefore, J6ers are less violent than the average person. Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for everyone else!) he's not even close.
There were about 1.3 million violent crimes *reported* in the US last year, out of a population of about 330 million. Assuming one criminal and one victim per crime—which isn't necessarily the case, of course, but it's a reasonable approximation—that's a rate of 0.4%, not 4% or more.
The #arrest and #conviction rates are much lower. There are about 500,000 violent crime arrests each year, or 0.15%. I can't find conviction numbers at the moment, but they must be lower than arrest numbers: for convenience, let's say 0.10% of the population, 2/3 of those arrested, are convicted.
2.2% is a lot more than 0.10%. Even a #Republican ought to be able to figure that out.
@medigoth any particular reason this isn't quotable? I was going to add a bit about how people should be following you.
@fatsam I honestly don't know! Possibly a glitch, from my deleting and re-drafting it. Anyway, if you like please feel free to quote it the old-fashioned way, and add a link to my page.
@medigoth To be fair, we're talking about a nation where the 1/3rd pound hamburger failed because most people thought it was smaller than a 1/4th pound hamburger.
Or to quote Malibu Barbie, the perfect avatar of Americans everywhere, "Math is hard!"
For anyone who's really looking for an excuse to scrub their brain out with bleach and a wire brush:
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