Deaths---doctors vs. guns

pickenup

I sure this has been posted before, but I could not help posting again for any new people that might not have seen it.

a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Now consider the following:

a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately (9,000) times more dangerous than gun owners.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health
measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the
shock could cause people to seek medical attention.


If I knew then, what I know now.

Alpine

It seems funny / peculiar that the gun control idiots never ever want to bring up this statistic. And the doctor gun control group never brings up these numbers. Also the mom gun control group never would admit that it is statistically more dangerous to be treated by a doctor, that die by a gun.
Amazing isn't it!

"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."

Edited by - Alpine on 06/22/2002 10:47:02