text: You probably heard that D.C. has a lower rate of death due to firearms. It's a moronic comparison because of all the troops killed by IED, etc. but here you go:\n\n\nIf you consider that there have 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. \n\nThe 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.