Today the Supremes discussed the gun control law in Washington DC. Without getting into the pros or cons of this argument at the moment, consider this: in the last 22 months in Iraq there has been an average of 160,000 troops. During the past 22 months there has been 2,112 combat deaths of soldiers which works out to 60.4 KIA per 100,000 troops. In that same time frame there was an average of 80.6 deaths per 100,000 people in our nation's capital-- a place where one of the strictest gun control laws is in effect. While any soldier's death is tragic, the alarming rate of homicides in Washington DC should give anyone pause.
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Today the Supremes discussed the gun control law in Washington DC. Without getting into the pros or cons of this argument at the moment, consider this: in the last 22 months in Iraq there has been an average of 160,000 troops. During the past 22 months there has been 2,112 combat deaths of soldiers which works out to 60.4 KIA per 100,000 troops. In that same time frame there was an average of 80.6 deaths per 100,000 people in our nation's capital-- a place where one of the strictest gun control laws is in effect. While any soldier's death is tragic, the alarming rate of homicides in Washington DC should give anyone pause.
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Ok, you need some citation here for this to make any sense at all, haha. 80.6 per 100000 due to "deaths" by gun I'm assuming? By people that live in DC? By police officers shooting people? Where are you getting this from? I'm not saying it's in any way inaccurate, I have no idea, but the above paragraph is virtually meaningless...help!
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Lol, I'm trolling here. I saw that there wasn't a thread on this topic yet, so I cut-n-pasted some lame spammy email that I got. No cites, no sites, no nothing. I just set a bare hook in the water to see if I could get some fish to bite.
It will be interesting to see what comes from the court's arguments though.
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It will be interesting to see what comes from the court's arguments though.
Totem
Totem wrote:
Lol, I'm trolling here. I saw that there wasn't a thread on this topic yet, so I cut-n-pasted some lame spammy email that I got. No cites, no sites, no nothing. I just set a bare hook in the water to see if I could get some fish to bite.
It will be interesting to see what comes from the court's arguments though.
Totem
It will be interesting to see what comes from the court's arguments though.
Totem
OH thank god...I read that and my brain tried to throw up...it was terrible!
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Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people! Unless you hit them on the head with the gun I supposed.
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Heheh, you jumped on it too quick. Scared all the other fish away.
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It's not worth a topic. A court now stacked with NRA members doesn't leave a lot of question about how it rule, codifying the 2nd Amendment as something it clearly was never meant to be (the reason it hasn't been decided before now).
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Order of magnitude, there are 16,000 homicides in the USA per year, and about 300,000,000 people averaging out to one per 19,000 people. So per year, per 100,000 people, that makes about 5 homicides. Per 22 months, which is about 2 years minus ten percent, that would be about 9. Could a high crime area increase this to, say, 81?
On the other hand, the overall death rate is vastly higher (obviously). Typical life span is around 70 years, so about one in 70 people die per year. Per 100,000 people, that is about 1400.
On the other hand, the overall death rate is vastly higher (obviously). Typical life span is around 70 years, so about one in 70 people die per year. Per 100,000 people, that is about 1400.
I thought the title said Scouts debate Washington DC gun control when I first saw this thread. I think that may have been more interesting, for a little while anyway.
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Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
I thought the title said Scouts debate Washington DC gun control when I first saw this thread. I think that may have been more interesting, for a little while anyway.
I read it as *******.
Would've been fun too.
My left nut is for gun control, but my right one pistol whipped it until it gave up.
Do what now?
Totem wrote:
Today the Supremes discussed the gun control law in Washington DC. Without getting into the pros or cons of this argument at the moment, consider this: in the last 22 months in Iraq there has been an average of 160,000 troops. During the past 22 months there has been 2,112 combat deaths of soldiers which works out to 60.4 KIA per 100,000 troops. In that same time frame there was an average of 80.6 deaths per 100,000 people in our nation's capital-- a place where one of the strictest gun control laws is in effect. While any soldier's death is tragic, the alarming rate of homicides in Washington DC should give anyone pause.
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I lost my post
Elinda, Star Breaker wrote:
So in conclusion, we should have sent our troops to DC.
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Your numbers make no sense.
Edit: oh, I see, spam e-mail.
Edited, Mar 19th 2008 4:23pm by trickybeck
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