Originally Posted by CDSmith

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in-theater in Iraq during the last 22 months, that gives a firearms death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per 100,000.

That means that you are more likely to be shot and killed in the Nation's Capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.


Conclusion: you should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.