I'd like to start giving people the option of commenting on shorter Cold Takes pieces (which I don't cross-post here or provide audio for). I'm going to use this post for that: I will generally leave a comment for each piece, and people can leave their comments as replies to that.
I didn't exclude the middle because I think it's insignificant - more because I didn't have data on it. That said, I would actually guess that it's not as big as the other two categories.
If two groups got in a fight in the US and there were lots of deaths, these would be classified as homicides; for violent deaths to not be classified as homicides, there needs to be some sort of breakdown or abuse of the legal framework. Those events don't seem so common that I think we're obviously missing a ton when we just look at the most deadly ones (though I do wish we had data on all of them).