{"id":1172,"date":"2011-07-20T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/interesting-tidbit\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T04:07:27","slug":"interesting-tidbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/interesting-tidbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Tidbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"3\">The most interesting tidbits come across my computer from friends:<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><strong><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><strong><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"3\">LOGIC 101          <br \/><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><\/font><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"4\"><strong>An interesting letter in the Canadian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote:          <br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><\/font><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"4\"><strong>&quot;If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.          <br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Tahoma\"><\/font><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"4\"><strong>The firearm death rate in Washington , DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq.\u201c         <br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#7b0f84\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\"><strong>Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington DC<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting tidbits come across my computer from friends: LOGIC 101 An interesting letter in the Canadian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote: &quot;If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}