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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