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<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=211325716-07122005>Since these statistics were
reported by a email newsletter, I'm not sure how much credence should be given
it. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=211325716-07122005>But on the bright side I'm sure
we still have a much lower death by bombing rate.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=211325716-07122005>>> </SPAN>If you consider
that there have been an average of 160,000 </FONT><FONT size=2>troops in the
Iraq Theater of operations during the last </FONT><FONT size=2>22 months, and a
total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm </FONT><FONT size=2>death rate of 60
per 100,000. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The firearm death rate in </FONT><FONT size=2>Washington D.C. is
80.6 per 100,000. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>That means that you </FONT><FONT size=2>are about 25% more
likely to be shot and killed in our </FONT><FONT size=2>Nation's Capitol, which
has some of the strictest gun </FONT><FONT size=2>control laws in the nation,
than you are in Iraq. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2>Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington.
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