Replying to a message of Dave Drum to All:

 DD> An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine, which I
 DD> quote:

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

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

 DD> CONCLUSION: The US should pull out of Washington.

Actually, Washington should pull out of the US.

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