Interesting Gun Death Stats...

[West Texas]

An interesting letter credited to an Australian Shooter Magazine.

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers."

" The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq."

Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington.

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***THIS IS POSTED IN THE MAN CAVE AND IT IS A JOKE, RATHER THERE WAS EVER SUCH AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED OR IF THESE NUMBERS ARE ACCURATE WAS NEVER THE POINT AS IT WAS MEANT AS A JOKE, BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO RESEARCH OTHER SERIOUS THREADS, BUT WANT TO POST WHAT SNOPES SAYS AND STATISTICS FROM OTHER SOURCES TO REFUTE WHAT WAS, ONCE AGAIN, POSTED AS, AND MEANT TO BE TAKEN AS A JOKE, FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY***​

 

[MR Redneck]

Now thats crazy!!

 

[Dcav]

Interesting.

One a side note IIRC guns are banned form private ownership in Australia.....

 

[ROGER4314]

The US should pull out of Washington.

I love it!

Flash

 

[matefrio]

Death rate comparison to Iraq and Washington DC-Fiction!

Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 by state. Definition, graph and map. 31.2 per year. x2 62.4 per year for 24 months not near 80.6 per 100,000

 

[tweek]

Death rate comparison to Iraq and Washington DC-Fiction!

Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 by state. Definition, graph and map. 31.2 per year. x2 62.4 per year for 24 months not near 80.6 per 100,000

I'm not sure I'd be quite all that proud of that stat considering what we are comparing against.....It's fucking Iraq. You sorta expect people to be shooting at you in Iraq. DC is our freaking capital, you'd expect to be able to walk the streets with hundred dollar bills taped to you nipples and not be bothered by anybody, much less have a rate of 60 someodd gun related deaths per 100K. That's nuts.

Even worse: rootin tootin Texas where we have all these crazy gun nuts and cowboys running around with pickups loaded with fireamrs and ammo we have a whole 11 (1 year) per 100K. Our other favorite, Arizona, only manages almost 19. Those whacky Arizonans don't even need a CHL to be packing heat and they only run the score up to 19? Pussies.

 

[West Texas]

Death rate comparison to Iraq and Washington DC-Fiction!

Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 by state. Definition, graph and map. 31.2 per year. x2 62.4 per year for 24 months not near 80.6 per 100,000

It was a JOKE, dude....geez...Since you can't tell the difference between a joke, POSTED IN THE MAN CAVE, and a serious thread posted under news articles, or politics, I added a disclaimer JUST FOR YOU.

 

[opiateofmasses]

Iraqi's shoot like shit! And they don't keep their firearms clean.

American thugs have way more discipline.

Mystery solved.

 

[matefrio]

It was a JOKE, dude....geez...Since you can't tell the difference between a joke, POSTED IN THE MAN CAVE, and a serious thread posted under news articles, or politics, I added a disclaimer JUST FOR YOU.

Ok, I LoLed

 

[MR Redneck]

I'm not sure I'd be quite all that proud of that stat considering what we are comparing against.....It's fucking Iraq. You sorta expect people to be shooting at you in Iraq. DC is our freaking capital, you'd expect to be able to walk the streets with hundred dollar bills taped to you nipples and not be bothered by anybody, much less have a rate of 60 someodd gun related deaths per 100K. That's nuts.

Even worse: rootin tootin Texas where we have all these crazy gun nuts and cowboys running around with pickups loaded with fireamrs and ammo we have a whole 11 (1 year) per 100K. Our other favorite, Arizona, only manages almost 19. Those whacky Arizonans don't even need a CHL to be packing heat and they only run the score up to 19? Pussies.

I would be interested in seeing who the actual death rates belonged to. Criminal or victim? If its victims of criminals on the statistic, then 1 is to many. If the statistic includes the criminals, then that statistic is wrong!!!