Washington, DC
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:28 pm
I wish I could take credit for this, but I saw it posted on another forum:
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If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in Iraq during the last 22 months, that gives a firearms death rate of 60 per 100,000. I know that bombs/IED's have accounted for most of the deaths, but bear with me...
The rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are more likely to be shot and killed in our nation's capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.
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If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in Iraq during the last 22 months, that gives a firearms death rate of 60 per 100,000. I know that bombs/IED's have accounted for most of the deaths, but bear with me...
The rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are more likely to be shot and killed in our nation's capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.