An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which 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, and a total of 2,112 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 ."
Conclusion: "The US should pull out of Washington ."
h/t McMike
Friday, August 19, 2011
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Wow.
If that is true my mind just exploded.
Here's why:
Since 1975, the District has been administered by a popularly elected mayor and city council.
Walter Washington 1975 – 1979 Democratic
Marion Barry 1979 – 1991 Democratic
Sharon Pratt Kelly 1991 – 1995 Democratic
Marion Barry 1995 – 1999 Democratic
Anthony A Williams 1999 – 2007 Democratic
Adrian Fenty 2007 – 2011 Democratic
Vincent C Gray 2011– present Democratic
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