chris matthews "you don't need a gun in DC".

[Lizzie Poppet]

64. Uncommon?

According to the FBI, there are c. 90,000 reported rapes per year. The FBI's Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates stranger rapes at 26% of that total. That's the same as by intimate partners (although a good bit less than by non-intimate-partner acquaintances). That's 24,000 rapes, or over 10,000 more incidents than the gun-related homicides everyone (rightly) calls an appalling number for this country.

Moreover, it's broadly understood that reported rapes are the minority. Even being conservative with the numbers, that means in the neighborhood of 200,000 rapes per year, and probably more. Stranger rapes perhaps in the neighborhood of 50,000. That's still not a huge probability...but it's a hell of a lot higher rate per 100,000 than gun-related murders. If stranger rape is "uncommon," then gun homicides are considerably more so.

I don't think that's quite where you wanted to go with that...