FACTS TO PONDER:
(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 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..)
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(B) The number of accidental gun deaths
per year, all age groups,
is
1,500.
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(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.
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The only times in this nations history that anything great happened it was because normal men put aside their petty differences and fight for a common cause.
Chester
"The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.)
Last edited by Chester; 03-10-2008 at 01:43 AM.
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