[Mazer]

So the only real difference between your math and mine, Jack and Malk, is that I've cited deaths per month and you've cited deaths per capita. Mortality rates may usually be enumerated per 100,000 people, but you'd never know it from the reporting in the major media; they always tell you how many soldiers die in a given time period. I could claim that the death of an American civilian in an American city is worth the deaths of 20 American soldiers in Iraq, given the fact that soldiers expect to be attacked while civilians shouldn't have to, but that would be hyperbole. Still, the fact that Iraq is a warzone while New York and Chicago are not should temper our comparisons.