Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Interesting thought
An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine from 2007, (I know, not timeley but I just came across it.) http://www.ssaa.org.au/australianshooter.html "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. "Washington DC is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there." (me, 8/4/09)
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Interesting...very interesting!
When we lived near Washington DC there are a lot of roads that even the police won't go down. There are some really scary areas. I am glad I don't live there anymore!
That's a sad commentary on American life, huh? Maybe everyone should carry a gun?
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