[phoenix0468]

That means that you are about 25 percent 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.

Don't get me wrong here, I agree with most of what you have posted excetp this. You are citing only the casualites, not counting those who have been wounded. Also, the primary weapon used by the insurgents in Iraq is not small arms but IED's. Iraq is still a more violent place than the D.C. area, but not by much.

[T-Girl]

Yeah... I suppose that part could very well have been left out of this -- since it's the picture that's really the point here.