On Nov 2, 12:21 pm, 1LK wrote:
Serving in Iraq
carries a similar risk, but the population isn't uniform; there's
clearly a difference in being in being part of the rear echelon vs
patrolling the streets.

It is always worth comparing one risk with another, as
a sanity check.

During the first Gulf War in 1991, it was safer to be a black GI
on active service in the Gulf than it was to be a black civilian
in Washington DC.

In this case "safer" means probability of non-accidental death
per 100,000 people.

When I first heard that I was sufficiently suspicious that I went
down the library (it was just as the web was arriving) and checked
the sources myself.

The other surprising statistic is the age at which you are
most likely to be a homicide victim in the UK. Most people
presume 16-24, but actually it is three times more
likely to be deliberately killed when you are under 1 year
old. And 55% of those homicides are committed by females.

(N.B. I used "homicide" very deliberately, not murder)