Where is the Outrage?

(Number 1 in a series)

Maybe this should be titled "They're such hypocrites".

I am really fed up with the outrage shown by the Democrats and Liberals in this country for the numbers of dead soldiers coming out of Iraq. They are complaining because 720 [9] trained soldiers died during 2003 in Iraq and for the first quarter of 2004, another 125 [9] lost their lives. Please don't get me wrong here, I think dead soldiers are a bad thing, especially if they are wearing our Stars and Stripes.

What I AM upset about is the apparent _lack_ of outrage for those unarmed, untrained, unprotected, undefended civilians right here at home, in the good-old-U-S-of-A, that were killed. Killed, not as a result of war or any defensive action, but during their everyday lives.

Here are some statistics from just a few of the 50 largest cities in the United States [5] to put things in perspective.
City, State = Number Killed
Chicago, Illinois = 599 [1]
Dallas, Texas = 223 [8]
New York, New York = 596 [1]
Los Angeles, California = 499 [1]
Las Vegas, Nevada = 147 [2]
St. Louis, Missouri = 69 [1]
Baltimore, Maryland = 271 [1]
Denver, Colorado = 65 [6]
Memphis, Tennessee = 109 [7]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [City of Brotherly Love] = 347 [4]
Washington, D.C = 247 [1], 262 [3]

3172 civilians killed IN JUST 11 CITIES! Again I ask: Where is the Outrage?

[1]http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-01-02-city-murders_x.htm (FOR 2003)
[2]http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Apr-09-Fri-2004/news/23624928.html (FOR 2003)
[3]http://www.safestreetsdc.com/subpages/murdercap.html (FOR 2002)
[4]http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7615468.htm?1c (FOR 2003)
[5]http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108477.html
[6]http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2052099,00.html (FOR 2003)
[7]http://www.cityofmemphis.org/navigate.asp?sessionID=&sec=publicsafety&opt=mpd_crimestats (FOR 2000)
[8]http://cbs11tv.com/investigations/local_story_048095258.html (FOR 2003)
[9]http://www.globalsecurity.org