Feb 222006
This morning I received this from a friend. I pass it along without knowing if it is accurate .
If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
The rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation’s Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington DC
Interesting stat. I think there are definitely some people that need to see this.
Unfortunately the troops in Iraq are not killed with firearms — and we had a lot more troops in there early on — which will lower that number in Iraq even further. Also, deaths in Washington DC, while deplorable, are not part of a series of bad decisions that are slowly destroying American democracy.
Finally, like all urban legends, this one is plain wrong: The murder rate is about 45 per 100K
Do people not have Google in that part of the internet, or what?
Michael