If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. 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 U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington immediately.

I received this link from Lena’s Aunt Cynthia. Lena’s cousin Sarah, has an internship writing for the Miami Herald. Check out her last article of the year.