I dug up a few statistics. Basically, most murder victims are young black males who are drunk. They are your victims, Sidhe. Why don't you post about them?
See this summary
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Males are 9 times more likely to commit murder and 3.6 times more likely to be murdered than females. The murder/victim sex percentages are summarized as:
male murderer/male victim....... 67.9%
male murderer/female victim..... 22.0%
female murderer/male victim..... 7.8%
female murderer/female victim... 2.3%
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total: 100.0%
About 10% of homicides in 1997 were by "intimates" (spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends and girlfriends). There was little difference between the victimization rate for black or white males, but black females were twice as likely and white females were four times as likely to be victims of intimates as males.
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Sidhe's article says that out of 688 murdered women in Maryland, 50 were pregnant. I doubt Maryland is representative of the entire US, but many states don't track homicides of pregant females, so let's pretend it is representative. If anything, it has more homicides (see Baltimore), so the real US total should be lower. Anyway, 50 pregnant out of 688 killed is about 7% of all murdered women. Women make up 29.8% of all the murder victims (see quote), so 01.7% of all murders are pregnant women.
1.7% of all murders are pregnant women. Is that a lot? A little? There are 6.2 million pregnancies in the US each year.
Cite A pregnancy lasts 3/4 of a year long, and there are about 300 million Americans. So that means 1.5% of all Americans are pregnant each year. 1.7% is pretty darn close to 1.5%.
The percentage of murdered pregnant females is proportional to the percentage of pregnant females.
There's nothing to see here. Move along.