You think you're looking at Iraq instead of Philadelphia... [More]Actually for a comparable period of the last recorded homicide tabulation for Iraq in 2008 by Gun Policy.org, Iraq's rate was 2.0 per 100,000 and Philly's was over 10 times that.
What do you expect, when top law enforcement allows gun criminals to flout the law with impunity because they are the gun criminals?
What this story is really doing, of course, is ginning up public hysteria against "AK47-style" firearms.