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Originally Posted by shack
Could be a load of horse shit? Nonetheless interesting 
Received in an email:
"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the
Iraq theatre 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 firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the
same
period.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in
the
U.S.Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the
nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The U.S. should immediately pull out of Washington." |
Washington, DC has an amazingly high rate of killings for decades. It's unfortunate but this is nothing new. Remember Mayor Barry? You know, the Mayor of DC that was busted on camera doing crack with a hooker. He was reelected when he got out of jail.
Parts of DC are the safest in the world and parts of it seem third world. It will be interesting if we see more cities mimic this.