Baghdad”s Murder Rate Irresponsibly Distorted
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created a ruckus when he said: ?You`ve
got to remember that if Washington, D.C., were the size of Baghdad, we
would be having something like 215 murders a month.? This bothered some
simply because it indicated that Iraq was being handled well. But another
aspect upset many: that a country where civilians were able to freely own
machine guns could have a lower murder rate than our own nation?s capital
where even handguns are banned. The claim did not sit well with those
pushing to renew the assault weapons ban in our own country.
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