Father Time Comments on Gun Control

I had this E-Mailed to me by Father Time, and I had to share it with you folks immediately.

If you consider that there have 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, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C.(among others) 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.

Now, I'm not sure about the math, but then again, I'm a historian. I think when you compensate for the troop rotations and the total number of American service personnel who have cycled through the country, the math probably adds up.

Questions?