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An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week which says, I quote: "If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, & a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers."

"The firearm death rate in Washington , D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25% more likely to be shot & killed in the U.S. capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq."

Conclusion: "The U.S. should pull out of Washington ."
 
One better, of those 2112 deaths, there are those who died from something other than firearms. Like helicopters going down, IEDs, etc.
 
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