Gun Statistics

[Liberty]

Food for thought:

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in
the Iraq theater of operations during the last 32 months, and a total
of 3,112 deaths, that gives a firearms death rate of 60.8 per 100,000
soldiers.

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

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

[Venus Pax]

Where did you get those numbers?

[Liberty]

Where did you get those numbers?

From no where reliable. Although the 160,000 troops and 3,112 deaths sound correct in number. I posted it for the humor value .. even though the numbers are likely fishy.

[frankie_the_yankee]

Ah, the 3100 deaths are over a 4 year period. That's around 48 months.

That works out to around 800 deaths per year. For 160,000 troops, that works out to approximately 500 deaths per year per 100,000 troops - not 60.8. (The 60.8 number is actually an approximation of the death rate per MONTH, while the rate given for DC is an ANNUAL rate.)

Whatever "internet idiot" generated that statistic doesn't know how to do basic arithmetic.

Furthermore, I do not see any humor value whatsoever in numbers games like this, when our young people are putting their lives on the line fighting such a viscious enemy as they face in Iraq.

God Bless Them All.

[Liberty]

Ah, the 3100 deaths are over a 4 year period. That's around 48 months.

That works out to around 800 deaths per year. For 160,000 troops, that works out to approximately 500 deaths per year per 100,000 troops - not 60.8. (The 60.8 number is actually an approximation of the death rate per MONTH, while the rate given for DC is an ANNUAL rate.)

Whatever "internet idiot" generated that statistic doesn't know how to do basic arithmetic.

Furthermore, I do not see any humor value whatsoever in numbers games like this, when our young people are putting their lives on the line fighting such a viscious enemy as they face in Iraq.

God Bless Them All.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be offencive. while I strongly suspected the figures were bogus, I thought the punch line was a little humorous. I suspect that the "internet idiot" know exactly what he was doing with the figures.

As for our young people over in Iraq, I had seen this posted on one of the mil blogs a few months ago. So apparently at least one of those young people thought it was kinda funny.

[Jason73]

here is a fun statistic...

Statistics provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

Doctors: (A) There are 700,000 physicians in the U.S. (B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians total 120,000 per year. (C) Accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.

Guns: (A) There are 80 million gun owners in the U.S. (B) There are 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups. (C) The percentage of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.0000188.

Statistically, then, doctors are 9,000 times more dangerous to the public health than gun owners.

[pbandjelly]

both of those are funny.

"pull out of DC" that's rich....

[Jason73]

did some digging and found this:

Iraqi civilian death statistics complied by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that, contrary to the impression made on the evening news, Iraq actually has a lower civilian violent death rate than Washington, D.C., and pre-Katrina New Orleans

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/i ... stats.html