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Originally Posted by Undertoad
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.
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So as those gunner were discussing how much ammo remained, the one guy said he only had 1/4 of a box of 50 cals left. Since the death rate in Washington is so much higher, then gun dealers in Washington must be selling bullets by the crates and kegs.
The Italian reporter, Sgrena, said a tank opened fire on their vehicle for no reason and with no warning. Her comments are more in line with what has long been reported internationally and consistent film news reports showing that US troops routinely fire weapons even on every convoy. That highway - five miles between the airport and Baghdad - is so unsafe that US government personal have been forbidden to travel it. That threat only due to insurgents. US soliders don't tend to fire on their own vehicles have no problem firing warning shots into a car that poses no threat. With insurgents and Americans firing at civilians, well clearly Washington DC is still more dangerous.
Clearly it must be true ... or another classic example of the effective George Jr propaganda machine.. They also take credit for demonstrations in Lebanaon, citing the Iraqi elections. Clearly international news broadcasters are again wrong. International broadcasters report the Lebanon people were strongly inspired by the Ukraninian Orange Revolution. Obviously domestic propaganda must be right. Washington DC is obviously more deadly. Or just maybe the death rates are higher where 50 calibre bullets are routinely fired at anyone who gets near to or approaches Americans? In one convoy, the gunners had fired most of their ammo - in warning. And managed not to hit anyone because Baghdad is so much safer?