> On May 5, 2:55=EF=BF=3D3Fpm, Capitalist Pig
<cochon-capitali...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
> >
> > If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in
> > the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total
> > of 2,112 deaths, when this was written) that gives a firearm death
> > rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.
> >
> > The firearm death rate in Wa****ngton D. C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the
> > same period. (...and that was while handguns were outlawed!!)
> >
> > 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.
An excellent example of how to lie with statistics.
Now, please include Iraqis in the equation. Or don't they count?
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