Nearly 24 people shot in less than 12 hours

[Malone LaVeigh]

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.? The rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000.? That means that you are 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.

Maybe it means car bombs are a more effective insurrection tool than firearms.

 

[EchoSixMike]

Not 24 people KIA, just shot. Only a few of them died. Modern medicine for you. IL politicians in general and Chicagoans in particular are certifiably insane. Insanity defined as doing the same thing and expecting a different result. S/F....Ken M

 

[Curare]

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.? The rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000.? That means that you are 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.

The Iraq number looks only at US soldiers--not the entire population (like the DC stat).

Is the DC statistic over the same 22 months? Or is it only over a 12 month period from some time?

 

[Curare]

One more thing...

That 80.6 per 100,000 figure is from 1991--the worst ever murder rate in DC. There were 482 homicides in 1991 with a population just over 600,000.

In 2004, the most recent data available, there were 193 homicides in DC, with about 550,000 people. That's a murder rate of 35 per 100,000.

 

[EVIL5LITER]

35 per 100k is still abysmal, btw.

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

24 is not enough.

Get a few hundred people a night killed in Chicago and maybe some people will start to wake the f#$* up and say, "Gee, what good are the so-called anti-crime laws, like the gun ban, doing us here? People killed with guns in a place where the law is supposed to be keeping them from having them?"

The more people die, the more we can make anti-gunners look like the fools they truly are. And who's dying anyway but criminals. I'm supposed to cry?

-Jeffrey

 

[Desertdog]

Get a few hundred people a night killed in Chicago and maybe some people will start to wake the f#$* up and say, "Gee, what good are the so-called anti-crime laws, like the gun ban, doing us here? People killed with guns in a place where the law is supposed to be keeping them from having them?"

It does't work this way. The more people killed, the more anti-gunners think anti-gun laws are needed.

The more people die, the more we can make anti-gunners look like the fools they truly are. And who's dying anyway but criminals. I'm supposed to cry?

The anti-gunners have always looked like fools to us, but they see themselves as saviors of mankind by eliminating firearms.