If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in Iraq theatre of operations in the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital which has some of the strictest gun controls laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington immediately. |