http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421 If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C. Jim Richards If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq. Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington D.C. Jim Richards en-us That is so funny!&nbsp; I stumbled across those statistics a few days ago when trying to help my sister-in-laws feel better about my husbands upcoming deployment.&nbsp; The crazy things is we lived in the Washington D.C. area for a few years and on the news every night they talked about someone being shot.&nbsp; My husband and I (both being from Tehachapi) were shocked by how many deaths there were due to carelessness and violence. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81524 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81524 That is so funny!&nbsp; I stumbled across those statistics a few days ago when trying to help my sister-in-laws feel better about my husbands upcoming deployment.&nbsp; The crazy things is we lived in the Washington D.C. area for a few years and on the news every night they talked about someone being shot.&nbsp; My husband and I (both being from Tehachapi) were shocked by how many deaths there were due to carelessness and violence. <p>How many Iraqis have died from firearm use in the last 22 months? Shouldn't they also be considered in the equation, in order to get an <em>accurate </em>assessment?</p> <p>Not so funny, IMHO.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81581 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81581 <p>How many Iraqis have died from firearm use in the last 22 months? Shouldn't they also be considered in the equation, in order to get an <em>accurate </em>assessment?</p> <p>Not so funny, IMHO.</p> <p><strong><em><font color="#333399" size="3">Hey, oooh, for God's sake, lighten up will you? This was done tongue-in-cheek and meant to be funny. There's too much heavy stuff going on in the world today so it's good for us, once in a while, to poke a little fun at ourselves!</font></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em><font color="#333399" size="3">Jim Richards</font></em></strong></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81638 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81638 <p><strong><em><font color="#333399" size="3">Hey, oooh, for God's sake, lighten up will you? This was done tongue-in-cheek and meant to be funny. There's too much heavy stuff going on in the world today so it's good for us, once in a while, to poke a little fun at ourselves!</font></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em><font color="#333399" size="3">Jim Richards</font></em></strong></p> <p>I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intentions, Jim. I really didn't see any indication that this was supposed to be funny (smilies convey <em>a lot</em>) &amp; there have been plenty of conservative pundits who actually believe this kind of comparison should be taken seriously.</p> <p>i worry about the folks who listen to these blow-hards &amp; think they have a point (other than the ones on their heads.)</p> <p>;)</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81659 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81659 <p>I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intentions, Jim. I really didn't see any indication that this was supposed to be funny (smilies convey <em>a lot</em>) &amp; there have been plenty of conservative pundits who actually believe this kind of comparison should be taken seriously.</p> <p>i worry about the folks who listen to these blow-hards &amp; think they have a point (other than the ones on their heads.)</p> <p>;)</p> <p><strong><font color="#993366">WHERE IS SPARKS?</font></strong></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81777 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_81777 <p><strong><font color="#993366">WHERE IS SPARKS?</font></strong></p> Hiya Jewels...&nbsp; I have been vacationing quite a bit...&nbsp; good to see ya.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, btw those calculations above are extremely incorrect... The statement is humorous though.&nbsp; I'm laughing my butt off over here, but perhaps for a different reason than some of you are. http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_83012 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_83012 Hiya Jewels...&nbsp; I have been vacationing quite a bit...&nbsp; good to see ya.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, btw those calculations above are extremely incorrect... The statement is humorous though.&nbsp; I'm laughing my butt off over here, but perhaps for a different reason than some of you are. <p>Then enlighten us with the correct stats please.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_86493 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_86493 <p>Then enlighten us with the correct stats please.</p> <p>I will give you links to some rates on these death tolls, but I urge you to do your own research as well.</p> <p>The King report uses <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004902.html"><font color="#000033">2002 data</font></a> for Washington, D.C., finding a violent casualty rate of 45.9 deaths per 100,000 people because the homicides in D.C were extremely high that year.&nbsp;Using the most recent <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/offense_tabulations/table_05.html#dc"><font color="#000033">2004 data</font></a>, <strong>the violent casualty rate in D.C. is 35.8 deaths per 100,000</strong>. There were 198 homicides total in D.C. for the entire year.&nbsp; This is probably why Rstott pointed out that many of the&nbsp;deaths in D.C. are due to carelessness, AND&nbsp;homicides, not just homicides alone.&nbsp; Almost half of the deaths in D.C. are do to carelessness.&nbsp; Even if you count the large amount of deaths the homeless suffered when freezing to death in D.C.&nbsp;the&nbsp;total number of homicides in D.C. is much smaller than the estimated 80.6 per 1000 stated above.&nbsp;&nbsp; King also said he came up with an annualized<strong> innocent&nbsp;Iraqi civilian</strong> death rate of only 27.51 per 100,000 when he was on the Rush Limbaugh show.<strong>&nbsp; </strong>That rate is much higher if you go by <a href="http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">http://www.iraqbodycount.org/</a>&nbsp;statistics.&nbsp; Or are we not counting innocent people including&nbsp;women and children that are killed &nbsp;in Iraq?&nbsp; Are we only counting American Deaths?&nbsp; If you are only concerned with American deaths than still almost twice as many Americans are &nbsp;killed in Iraq than in Washington D.C. for no good reason.&nbsp; I don't even want to get into the hundreds of thousands of&nbsp;Iraqis that have been killed.&nbsp; This was just conservative&nbsp;&nbsp;propaganda to help war mongers continue with this war they so badly&nbsp;want to continue.&nbsp; </p> <p>To Jim's question &quot;Should we pull out of Washington D.C.&nbsp;?&quot;&nbsp; The answer is NO, we should get&nbsp;new leaders in congress and&nbsp;in the White House who have enough brains to deal with this situation.&nbsp; Poverty is&nbsp;killing&nbsp;people in D.C.&nbsp; The homeless situation there is saddening to say the least.&nbsp;&nbsp; This shouldn't be happening in America.&nbsp;&nbsp; We need stronger leadership, we need a president that cares about ALL Americans, not just the rich.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know this is primarily a liberal view but dabnabbit illegal aliens that we lured over here with money and benefits are better off than some Americans...&nbsp;&nbsp; it's just NOT RIGHT. </p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_86751 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/8421/#c_86751 <p>I will give you links to some rates on these death tolls, but I urge you to do your own research as well.</p> <p>The King report uses <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004902.html"><font color="#000033">2002 data</font></a> for Washington, D.C., finding a violent casualty rate of 45.9 deaths per 100,000 people because the homicides in D.C were extremely high that year.&nbsp;Using the most recent <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/offense_tabulations/table_05.html#dc"><font color="#000033">2004 data</font></a>, <strong>the violent casualty rate in D.C. is 35.8 deaths per 100,000</strong>. There were 198 homicides total in D.C. for the entire year.&nbsp; This is probably why Rstott pointed out that many of the&nbsp;deaths in D.C. are due to carelessness, AND&nbsp;homicides, not just homicides alone.&nbsp; Almost half of the deaths in D.C. are do to carelessness.&nbsp; Even if you count the large amount of deaths the homeless suffered when freezing to death in D.C.&nbsp;the&nbsp;total number of homicides in D.C. is much smaller than the estimated 80.6 per 1000 stated above.&nbsp;&nbsp; King also said he came up with an annualized<strong> innocent&nbsp;Iraqi civilian</strong> death rate of only 27.51 per 100,000 when he was on the Rush Limbaugh show.<strong>&nbsp; </strong>That rate is much higher if you go by <a href="http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">http://www.iraqbodycount.org/</a>&nbsp;statistics.&nbsp; Or are we not counting innocent people including&nbsp;women and children that are killed &nbsp;in Iraq?&nbsp; Are we only counting American Deaths?&nbsp; If you are only concerned with American deaths than still almost twice as many Americans are &nbsp;killed in Iraq than in Washington D.C. for no good reason.&nbsp; I don't even want to get into the hundreds of thousands of&nbsp;Iraqis that have been killed.&nbsp; This was just conservative&nbsp;&nbsp;propaganda to help war mongers continue with this war they so badly&nbsp;want to continue.&nbsp; </p> <p>To Jim's question &quot;Should we pull out of Washington D.C.&nbsp;?&quot;&nbsp; The answer is NO, we should get&nbsp;new leaders in congress and&nbsp;in the White House who have enough brains to deal with this situation.&nbsp; Poverty is&nbsp;killing&nbsp;people in D.C.&nbsp; The homeless situation there is saddening to say the least.&nbsp;&nbsp; This shouldn't be happening in America.&nbsp;&nbsp; We need stronger leadership, we need a president that cares about ALL Americans, not just the rich.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know this is primarily a liberal view but dabnabbit illegal aliens that we lured over here with money and benefits are better off than some Americans...&nbsp;&nbsp; it's just NOT RIGHT. </p>