So, all in all, it's safer in Iraq than NY City.
We take comfort in the fact that at least we're not Detroit.
Could be..this was from the article
...the crime is down citywide. At this time last year, 307 murder, so far, this year, 273, shootings, 742 by this time last year, as of July 4th, this year, 671.
Iraq has been repeatedly compared to the size of California so I went to the California crime web site and found the in 2002( the last year noted) they had 2000 homicides. We've lost 850 soldiers in a war zone. Even adding the killed in Afghanistan it's not 2000. Thats 2 wars and it's more dangerous for Americans in California.
When I bring this up, people say I'm degrading the sacrifice of our soldiers, but I'm not. I'm proud of the job they are doing and their professionalism. I'm just saying the war is going quite well according to any standard one can use. We lost more people taking one hill in "Nam" than in 2 wars. It scares me to think how weak the US citizenry has become over the years. What if we had losses like in Normandy again? Would we have to negotiate with tyrants to stay elected to office?
The question most people should be asking instead of "why so many guns", is, "why so many murderers?" We might have to confront school prayer, right and wrong, patriotism, nationalism, good and evil, etc.
well for one you get to shoot back
in NYC you just get shot