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Something I just received in my Inbox....
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 about 2,000 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 some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C.
I still say, "nuke it from orbit."
Read more in StatsYeah, roughly, it is 60/100k per MONTH in Iraq, vs the 80/100k per YEAR in DC.
Read more in StatsHazy Dave is right: 2000 / 160000 * 100000 * 12 / 22 = 682.
Read more in StatsThe way I figure it, that's more like 682 deaths per year per 100,000 soldiers. (Assuming the da
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Rob@L&R said:
Just nuke it from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
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Just nuke it from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, July 18, 2005 02:05 PM ||The way I figure it, that's more like 682 deaths per year per 100,000 soldiers. (Assuming the data as given is accurate.) Or are we comparing monthly rates to yearly rates?
|| Posted by Hazy Dave, July 19, 2005 12:25 PM ||Hazy Dave is right: 2000 / 160000 * 100000 * 12 / 22 = 682.
|| Posted by Mark, July 19, 2005 02:14 PM ||Yeah, roughly, it is 60/100k per MONTH in Iraq, vs the 80/100k per YEAR in DC.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, July 19, 2005 05:59 PM ||I still say, "nuke it from orbit."
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, July 20, 2005 04:43 AM ||