Murder Rate Higher In Major US Cities Than Iraq?

Update Note : According to a "fact checking site" these figures are incorrect - 6/9/2010 Still, getting out of DC is a good idea especially given the current nightmare that exists there.

If these figures are correct, which I can't substantiate at this point, then our major American cities are more dangerous that the most third world countries and even war zones like Iraq. And are the figures that we are given the real totals? Why should we believe anything that comes out of these cities?

Even when the figures come from the FBI, I question their validity - just like all government institutions these days, why wouldn't the FBI be saturated with liberal Democrats that have to support their political agenda?

This begs the question, who is running these cities? If the truth be known, the ten most dangerous cities in this country are all controlled by liberal Democrats. Little wonder then why the country is going down the tubes under Obama and the liberal Democrat controlled congress.


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An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 806 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 13 times more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: "The US should pull out of Washington."