A friend e-mails that he saw a billboard in Michigan that read something like this:
FIVE YEAR DEATH TOLL
-- Military personnel killed in Iraq: 4,000
-- U S. citizens murdered in the country: 83,500
-- U. S. citizens killed in auto accidents: 210,000
-- U. S. citizens killed in home accidents: 340,000
-- Infants killed in their mother's wombs: 6,400,000
I can't vouch for the accuracy of the statistics, but they sound about right. Isn't it just a little bit ironic that judging by the amount of attention in the media some of the same people who are most outraged over the first statistic seem only perfunctorily concerned about the next three and are zealously committed to perpetuating the last?
RLC
