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Originally posted by kumma
even more of a tangent...
According to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Department of Transportation�s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the fatality rate and alcohol-related crashes are both down from 2003; however, 42,800 individuals died on the nation�s highways in 2004, up slightly from 42,643 in 2003. NHTSA estimates that highway crashes cost society $230.6 billion a year or about $820 per person.
Interesting that more people die in 2.5 weeks on our own roads than U.S. military personnel have died in Iraq. Check out the costs as well.
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Have you taken a page out of Lendaddy's book? He quotes highway death statistics, too, as if they had any relevance.
Maybe this will help you understand the stupidity of that argument:
Why don't we just apply the same standard to all the deaths at the WTC and Pentagon, too. I mean, all those people would have been killed on the highway in a 4-week period, right?
Our solders' deaths are every bit as relevant as the 9/11 victims.