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Democrats are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of the US military death toll reaching the 3,000 mark.
While this number is a terrible toll on America's bravest, I would like to point out a fact or two to our Democrat liberal friends (and I use that term facetiously I assure you).
According to the most recent (2004) Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Crime in the United States" data;
every 23 seconds in America, there is one murder, rape or violent assault. Every 23 seconds!
In that year there were approximately 1.3 million violent crimes committed within US borders. To be a bit more pedantic;
Every 32.6 minutes: One Murder
Every 5.6 minutes: One Forcible Rape
Every 1.3 minutes: One Robbery
Every 36.9 seconds: One Aggravated Assault
Add to this Property Crime (there's one every 3.1 seconds in the US) such as;
Every 14.7 seconds: One Burglary
Every 4.5 seconds: One Larceny-theft
Every 25.5 seconds: One Motor Vehicle Theft
There were over 2,000 murders in one year just in the state of California alone! Not to mention the 1,261,164 total crimes in that State... and these are just the ones they know about!
Now, my point is not to moralize about this, frankly I could care less if assholes want to off one another as long as the bodies aren't left on my driveway. My point is we don't hear from the Mainstream Media about the much higher murder rate just around the corner from our home as they prefer to dwell on the lower military casualty rate halfway around the world in order to press their anti-military agenda. In fact, the only time the MSM gloms onto a domestic crime of violence is when the victim is black or Hispanic AND the perpetrator is white - or better - a white cop. Or the victim is a wealthy celebrity. Or a beautiful young girl whose pic's look good on tv. In any of these cases, we are treated to the wretched excess of 24-7 coverage and if there happens to be video of the incident we get to see it over-and-over-and-over in each 12-minute news segment. But since these videos are relatively rare - Praise God! - we don't get a true sense of how many people are killed every year right here in the good ol' US of A.
This is because the media is so far to the Left they are halfway to Hawaii. Now if they could find a way to blame all these murders, rapes and violent crimes on the Republican Administration, they'd be in the headlines every day. Which demonstrates the grossest hypocracy because it shows that deep down, these bleeding heart journalists don't give a damn about minorities, women and the poor (all of whom experience violent crimes at a high level) except as it helps forward their Leftist agenda.
The FBI statistics are extremely conservative I'm sure. In essence they suggest that in California, one in every 30 persons will be a victim of a violent crime every year! In a sense, because many if not most of the murder victims are young men, one could argue that a young man is no more at risk of harm in the military, even in Baghdad, than he is in any large American city. This might not be statistically provable - but it's true.
So when you hear the Democrats rail on about how Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are sending our boys to war to be slaughtered, ask them this; since they make up a majority of our own big city administrations, why are THEY not doing much to stop the murders which happen one every 32.6 minutes here at home? Why don't they stop casting political stones, pretending that everything is a "Federal" problem, while THEY preside over our homeland slaughter?
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