Feb 08, 2005 15:48
Please consider carefully the sad implications of the following message
below,
forwarded by Dr. John Russell. Dr. Russell was an Army Chaplain in Vietnam,
and
retired as a Colonel in the Army Reserves.
According to icasualties.org, there have been 88 hostile fire deaths caused
by
firearms since the beginning of hostilities in Iraq. The remainder of
coalition
deaths have been due to explosives or accidents.
What does this mean? If you consider that there have been an average of
160,000
troops in theater during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm death
rate of
60 per 100,000. The rate in DC is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are
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.
The conclusion? Under the tactics of the left, we should immediately pull
out
of WASHINGTON, DC