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Number of physicians in the US: 700,000.
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000.
Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000.
Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500.
Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
"FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but 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, the statistics on Lawyers have been withheld for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical aid.
Originally posted by NatureBoy
interesting stats...
now lets consider how many 'gun owners' just happened to be working really hard to perform a delicate medical procedure or choose the right compound to treat a rare or obscure illness when they accidentally discharged their 44 into little suzzy's cranium.
Haha i suppose all the rest of the people killed by guns were on purpose so didn't count right?
A gun is a weapon, pure and simple - they are made to end life.
A doctor is a good guy working hard - they just try to save lives.
Compareing the two is just retarded.
Really it's pathetic how desperate you gun nuts are getting!
The average human has one breast and one testicle. - Des McHale
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. - Andrew Lang
Originally posted by badgerprints
Ooohhh.
What are you doing??
If you are going to deal in facts then nobody will be able to argue with you.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
Amount of people killed deliberately by guns? Countless...
Amount of people killed deliberately by surgeons? Probably not many.
they protect
A doctor can be used just as easily as a gun to end life. It's all about how the things are used.
murder is already illegal, so those who kill with guns already show they don't care about the law.
now lets consider how many 'gun owners' just happened to be working really hard to perform a delicate medical procedure or choose the right compound to treat a rare or obscure illness when they accidentally discharged their 44 into little suzzy's cranium.
Different tools for different jobs. Is what it comes down too.
The fact is people kill people, whether it be piano wire, bare hands, baseball bat, cars, meat cleaver, knives, etc. guns are just one of those tools, blaming an inanimate object for death is akin to saying spoons make people fat.