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Saturday, December 17, 2005


Where Merrily takes her shoes off and does some counting. It adds up, too.
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 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The rate in Washington D.C. (among others) 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.
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"I did not vote for Obama but he is remarkable. In less than three weeks in office he has collected more than $150,000 in back taxes."
Gayle Miller
Homicides are usually normalized at a rate of x deaths per 100,000 population per year. 60/100,000 is the rate per month.

I wish it were 60 per year, but I get an annual rate of 720 per 100,000.

2112/1.6 = 1320 per 100,000 over 22 months;

Annualizing, 1320*12/22 = 720 deaths per 100,000 per year.

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Little problem: I don't have the figures in front of me, but IIRC most of the fatalities in Iraq come form explosives: Car bombs, IED's, et cetera. Plus, of course, a sizeable percentage of noncombat fatalities (allergic reactions, falls, car accidents, et cetera).

Now if Merrily was advocating carbombing Washington DC... that would be a different story.

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