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Old 07-18-2006, 07:27 AM  
crockett
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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."
umm that doesn't take into account all the wounded soldiers or Iraqi's that have been killed or wounded. So I think I'd take my chances driving through DC vs Bagdad or anywhere in Iraq for that matter.
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