This is primarily a travel blog in which I write about traveling in our motorhome. Our travels have

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I began this blog as a vehicle for reporting on a 47-day trip made by my wife and me in our motorhome down to the Yucatan Peninsula and back. I continued writing about our post-Yucatan travels and gradually began including non-travel related topics. I often rant about things that piss me off, such as gun violence, fracking, healthcare, education, and anything else that pushes my button. I have a photography gallery on my Smugmug site (http://rbmartiniv.smugmug.com).

Monday, December 17, 2012

Where's the Anger?

To paraphrase Mario Piperni (www.mariopiperni.com):
(mariopiperni.com)

Statistic #1:  Since the beginning of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars on 3/19/03 (almost 11 years now), there have been 6,618 Americans killed in those wars.

 Statistic #2:  In the year 2011 (1 year), there were 8,583 Americans killed by firearms in the US.

 Question:  Why are we not AT LEAST as outraged by the second statistic as we are by the first?
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3 comments :

Bill said...

Good question. Some of us are outraged by both statistics.

December 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Michael Ultra said...

I am also curious how many 'we' killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

December 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM
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