“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 monthly firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.“The same firearm death rate in Washington D.C. 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.” Oct 2006
