Well, Bureau of Justice statistics show that rates of simple assault have been increasing recently. I didn't need to read about the Congresswoman being assaulted to be convinced of that; I have much stronger evidence available. You were offering this incident as evidence that the "knockout game" is a thing, I thought, not just evidence that violent crime is up. After all, the latter hypothesis is entirely compatible with this just being a mugging.

Are you suggesting that a knockout game epidemic is the best explanation for the increase in simple assault?