Facts are funny little things

Facts:
- In the past two years or so in Iraq, there have been an average of 160,000 troops stationed at any given time.
- There have been 2112 troops killed.

- IF all of the troops had been killed by gunfire (most were not, but let's assume, for the sake of argument), then that would be a killed-by-gunfire rate of 60 per 100,000.

- During that time, the known firearm death rate in Washington DC was 57 per 100,000.



Conclusions:
1. We should pull out of Washington.
2. It is a statistical dead heat to either live in Washington DC
- or -
to put on Body armor, join the US Military, and go to Iraq, where we have been waging a war.
3. When one counts the US troops killed by IED's, and other such war-related casualties, then the killed-by-gunfire rate goes down drastically - meaning it's actually safer to wage war in Iraq that to simply live in Washington DC.
4. DC Gun laws make things more dangerous.