Comments on: Number of Chicago Murders in 2008 Tops U.S. Soldier Deaths in Iraq, But Media’s Not Reporting It

By: Texas & Mexico Border « Saltysweetspice's Blog

Texas & Mexico Border « Saltysweetspice's Blog — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:35:01 +0000

[...] if anything the US can do to help fight these Drug Lords. Especially when you consider almost 200 more people were murdered in Chicago than our Soldiers fighting in Iraq in 2008. Right, almost 200 more people died in one City in one year, than Soldiers fighting an actual [...]

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:05:28 +0000

I think it is better to compare the number of Iraqi citizen deaths with Chicago citizen deaths.

1,366,350 Iraqis have died since the US invasion. That is more deaths than all American causalities of war (1,314,000). According to the FBI homicide statistics, the total number of homicide deaths in America each year is around 14,000.

D.C. homicide rate dropped 25% from 2008 to 2009 after less strict gun laws. Maybe there is a correlation? But that does not explain Texas homicide rate, which is still higher than the national average. I do see a correlation with higher homicide rate and states with the death penalty.

By: BobMcCarty

BobMcCarty — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:40:26 +0000

Are you trying to make an anti-gun statement? If so, you failed.

By: laurent

laurent — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:09:21 +0000

2008 17,000 american get kill in usa only by guns homicide.

By: bobby

bobby — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:23:11 +0000

ugly

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:42:13 +0000

I don’t think anyone is questioning the dangerousness of Iraq with these statistics … I think the real question being posed by these statistics is: “are we living in a warzone in our own US cities, too?”

Having grown up on Chicago’s southside, I would answer to that, “yes.”