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Apr 19, 2007 07:07

It's interesting (in a horrified and disgusted sense of the word) to see the US reactions to their latest mass shooting.
Is it to think logically about the single common thread between mass shootings (which is to say, GUNS) and work to eliminate them?

No.

It's to try and develop ways so that when the next mass-shooting occurs you can minimise the ( Read more... )

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danconnor23 April 19 2007, 03:28:12 UTC
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 2,112 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.

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