1668 Where are you safer?
This tidbit comes from Dane Bramage's blog, and I can't verify its source. But it is an interesting thought."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 D.C. 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 20 some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq."
Actually, many of the deaths of our military in Iraq have been caused by accidents, not firearms or bombs. This is probably going around in forwarded e-mail and just hasn't caught up to me yet.
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This is a nice way of putting statistics in order: Imagine, the Second World War - every day over 4,000 people died every day who were in combat. And, imagine what happened to the population of the Jews in Poland, etc. We are talking about millions being wiped out. I don't see casualty lists like this yet...I guess I'm waiting to see what Iran is going to do to Israel and Palestine.
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