I got this via an e-mail forward today. I'm off to Chicago for a conference, otherwise I'd look into it further. Can anyone confirm or dispute these figures? At first glance, I think it might be comparing a monthly stat to an annual statistic...
Subject: Death rate in DC
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of U.S. involvement in Iraq,
here's a sobering statistic:
There has been a monthly 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 D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons,
for the same time period, 22 months.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in
the Capital of the United States, than you are in Iraq.
And we cant have a gun legally in the District!
PS--- the last line isn't *entirely* true... we can have shotguns.
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The other whacky thing is that I believe in the last 22 months we've spent almost 400 billion dollars on Iraq. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that we've not spent that much on the DC area.
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