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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: sandintoes who wrote (49109)5/1/2005 9:21:24 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 59480
 
I don't think this is accurate.

American Hostile fire fatalities 1214 since the beginning of the war. I think the average has been less than 150k not 160k. If it is 150k, then 1214 hostile fire fatalities is about 809 per 100,000. Of course that is for two years, call it 400 per year. Even if 3/4ths of the deaths were caused by non-firearms (IEDs and such) its still 100 American deaths caused by enemy firearms per 100k American soldiers per year.

So there is no city in the US which is as dangerous as Iraq is to our soldiers, but their could be a number of neighborhoods that are more dangerous. You are probably more likely to die by being shot in the worst neighborhoods in the US, you might even be more likely to die by violence overall. Unfortunately its hard to find murder rates by neighborhood to actually prove it but it seems that it is probably true.

Tim
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