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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Firearm Death Rate

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine, which I quote:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period..

That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I moved from D.C. 32 years ago and it was baddddd then. The corruption that Marion Barry has caused will not be reversed without nuking the city.

Anonymous said...

Hear! Hear! How sad.

Once again it gives credence to those that claim cities and states run by liberals seem to have the highest crime rates. You would think that people would begin to get after awhile.

Anonymous said...

then nuke it and leave the politicans there when we do. lol many problems solved at once

Anonymous said...

This would ring true for almost every urban city in the US.

Anonymous said...

9:10
Nuke it?

Pathetic

Anonymous said...

Don't waste the bullet. Their rotten to the core. They will implode on themselves, only problem we get what's left.