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Guest
An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, 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."
"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."