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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 a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

So this death rate is actually 60 per 100,000 soldiers per month, right?

The firearm death rate in Washington, D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

Waitasec. You are saying for the last 22 months, every month, 80 out of 100,000 citizens died in Washington DC? DC has over 500,000 citizens - you are trying to say that EVERY MONTH, OVER 400 residents of Washington DC are being killed by firearms? 4800+ per year? If I'm not mistaken, the total number of firearm deaths in the entire country is somewhere around 30,000/year. We're supposed to believe that over 15% of the firearm deaths in ALL of the USA occurs just in the confines of Washington DC? Sorry, I don't buy it. Got a source for this?