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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Snooky on February 26, 2007, 11:37:28

Title: Interesting statistics
Post by: Snooky on February 26, 2007, 11:37:28

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic. There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,867 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 persons for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

Now why isn't that a suprise  :lol:

Title: Interesting statistics
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 26, 2007, 19:12:40

:shock:

Title: Interesting statistics
Post by: smo on February 26, 2007, 19:20:03

Thats pretty scarry that going to war is safer than staying at home....as they say, only in america!  :roll:

Title: Interesting statistics
Post by: Bob696 on February 27, 2007, 06:33:48

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25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq

Thats if you are american of course. I would hate to think what the stats are for the Iraqis.

Title: Interesting statistics
Post by: jalopy joe on February 27, 2007, 15:22:56

I read somewhere once that the U.S.forces sent their doctors to work in Washington hospitals to get experience of treating gunshot wounds :!:  :!: