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Title: Gun Logic 101
Post by: Frosty on January 17, 2013, 10:51:37 PM

Gun Logic 101
An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week:

"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 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!!!!

Title: Re: Gun Logic 101
Post by: crusader rabbit on January 18, 2013, 07:30:25 AM

This makes too much sense.

I, therefore, stole it and am sending it on to others.

Crusader

Title: Re: Gun Logic 101
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 18, 2013, 08:39:23 AM

The post may be new but the data is from 2005 or so.

Title: Re: Gun Logic 101
Post by: Magoo541 on January 18, 2013, 09:11:47 AM

Stolen and posted to FB...  ;D

Title: Re: Gun Logic 101
Post by: BBJohnnyT on January 18, 2013, 04:20:37 PM

This magazine needs to recheck their math.  A quick check of some statistics show this isn't even close.  2,112 deaths for 160,000 troops over a 22 month period in 2004-05 gives a rate of 60 deaths per 100,000 per month.

Checking D.C.'s homicide rates shows roughly 464 gun related deaths during that same time.  Given a population of 580,000 in D.C., I calculated it out to just 3.6 deaths per 100,000 per month.

That's not even considering the 2,112 deaths we not all due to guns.