The Federalist, a conservative Internet news service, claims that the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, are safer than those of Washington, D.C. On a recent weekend, there were three more murders in Washington, D.C. It says, "The District’s strict gun-control laws did nothing to prevent these murders. Two of them were committed with knives."

Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld came in for criticism weeks ago for saying something similar—that Baghdad has less violent crime than the U.S. capital. "You’ve got to remember that if Washington, D.C. were the size of Baghdad, it would be having something like 215 murders a month," Rumsfeld said. "There’s going to be violence in a big city."