More Americans died in Chicago than in the Iraq & Afghanistan wars combined

[JWeinCom]

Eagle367 said:

JWeinCom said:
Well of course more people died in Chicago than Iraq and Afghanistan. Chicago is a city of millions. Unless they found the fountain of youth or something, more than a few thousand were going to die in the course of a decade. Duh.

 

Stupid?  So... you are suggesting that we should expect more Americans to die in Afghanistan and Iraq than Chicago?  The population of US citizens in those countries was like 200,000 at its peak.  And those were mostly young men in good physical shape, that weren't likely to die.

On the contrary, Chicago has over 2 million people.  I'm assuming age distribution is fairly typical, so we'd expect a lot of elderly and infants who are at an increased risk of dying.  If only half of one percent of the people of Chicago die per year, then we would still expect the number of deaths in Chicago to exceed the  American death toll of the Iraq and Afghan wars.

Just basic math man.