Thought for the Day

[HorseLady]

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the
> Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months - that gives a
> firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are
> 25% 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.
>
> Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C
>
>
>

 

[BS Gal]

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the
> Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months - that gives a
> firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are
> 25% 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.
>
> Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C
>
>
>

And Prince George's County.

 

[BuddyLee]

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the
> Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months - that gives a
> firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are
> 25% 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.
>
> Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C
>
>
>

Paul Harvey did an interesting piece one day. He named a place in South America it sounded like and named all the horrible things that had happened in that place the last 10 years; rape, murder, robbery, really bad things. This place in South America seemed like the worst of worst places. Paul Harvey then went onto say the places name. The place was not a country or town but a street 5-10 blocks from the White House.

 

[BS Gal]

Paul Harvey did an interesting piece one day. He named a place in South America it sounded like and named all the horrible things that had happened in that place the last 10 years; rape, murder, robbery, really bad things. This place in South America seemed like the worst of worst places. Paul Harvey then went onto say the places name. The place was not a country or town but a street 5-10 blocks from the White House.

Why doesn't that surprise me? We have it good down here in So. Md., but I'm worried that at some point, it's gonna move down here. Look at Waldorf. Now I go to Annapolis Mall before I would think about going to Waldorf. That bothers me.

 

[desertrat]

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the
> Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months - that gives a
> firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.
> The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are
> 25% 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.
>
> Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C
>
>
>

One other option would be to drop the gun restrictions and let law abiding citizens own and carry. Of course most of the deaths are drug dealers anyway so who really gives a s***. The only sad part are the accidental shootings of innocent bystanders who are usually kids.

 

[hvp05]

... the accidental shootings of innocent bystanders who are usually kids.

Did anyone see the story about the debate surrounding the new Suitland E.S. on the news last week? (Details at WJLA.)

Many parents like the school, but it's located very near a highly-trafficked drug area, so they want all students bused in. The police department's effective response was, "Most shootings happen at hours that kids are not around, so most of them should be okay."

Un-f'ing-believable! And yet they are clueless as to why P.G. is such a tragic joke.