Consider the following:
Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns: 
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)
(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 .000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Remember: "Guns don't Kill People, Doctors Kill People."
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FACT:
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT
ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large, the statistics on lawyers are withheld for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!
- STORMBRINGER SENDS
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Doctors vs. Gunowners
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3 comments:
It's the deliberate gun deaths people are worried about. Not the accidental ones.
OK, now can we have the stats on the number of deaths if there were a) no doctors and b) no gun owners please?
1) Theo, you're missing a zero in your gun rate. Should be 0.0000188
2) electro-kevin, all-cause deaths by guns in 2006 was 30,896, putting the rate at 0.000386, making doctors only 443-times more deadly.
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