GOD BLESS AMERICA
Here are some statistics and conclusions about a different subject.
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 2,112 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 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 pull out of Washington, DC.
A tip o’ the cap to American And Proud for the heads up on this.
I welcome all the readers from Pirate’s Cove, The Bullwinkle Blog, The Blue Star Chronicles, Rightwing Guy, Perri Nelson’s Website, Third World County.
This entry was posted
on Saturday, December 16th, 2006 at 11:59 pm and is filed under Humor, Politics.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
December 17th, 2006 at 1:58 am
Well thanks for the HT, I thought this was something folks should know…
Putting things in perspective helps inform the liberal minds……
December 18th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I’ve thought we should pull out of Washington DC and Compton California for quite some time now. Thanks for the numbers to back this up. Of course, you know the USG (USA Study Group) will recommend that we bring Mexico and Canada to the bargaining table to help stabilize the region.
January 4th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Lets think for a moment. One glance at that paragraph shows it is totally off base. No way 2112 deaths per 160,000 in 22 months comes to anywhere near as few as 60 per year.
2112 deaths out of 160000 would be 1320 per 100,000. If we want an annual rate we multiply by 12/22 (12 months is a year divided by 22 months) is 720. The folks you cite seem to have computed deaths per month per 100,000. Only off by a factor of 12!!!3
Let’s look at gun deaths in DC. Here’s on site: they give the deaths in DC in 2002 as 31.2 - less than 40% of what your source claims.
So, best available estimate I have is that the Iraq death rate (using the figures provided in your source) is 23 times higher than the DC fire-arms death rate (using the source I found).
Conclusion smug Bush apologists should put on their thinking cap before making calims that are demostrably wrong.
last edited: 1/04/07 7:1