For What it's Worth Department

[WD8BIL]

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians are 120,000 per year
(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.)
(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 the FBI

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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

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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 completely out of hand!!!!

Out of concern for the public at large,We have withheld any statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause panic to seek medical attention.

[w8khk]

Interesting statistics, Bud....   I wonder what percentage of Americans have and use Mauls, and how many fatal accidents are attributed to Mauls.  Could be Strapping is statistically safer than toting a firearm??

[Dave KA2J]

That's great Bud.  I'm still laughing!!!

[k4kyv]

I wonder how the statistics for automobiles would hold up, comparing the number of road deaths to the number of automobiles.  I think road deaths have been running about 40,000 a year nationwide (in just one year 10 X the total number of deaths in Iraq, or approximately the same as the number of deaths in Korea and almost the same as VietNam).

Yet you don't hear protests or calls for banning cars.  If someone invented a new product and put it on the market, and the first year that it was available to the public it caused 40,000 deaths, not only would the product be immediately recalled and taken off the market; the people running the company would most likely be behind bars.

[ka3zlr]

Great Equation, 

[Bacon, WA3WDR]

Those are interesting numbers, and I hope they stand up to the Snopes test.

<EDIT> Darn it, they might not.  This is what I found...  I'm not an anti-gun nut (I'm just a regular kind of nut) - but when something like that is easily ... uh, shot down, it does more harm than good.

All Experts - Urban Lenegds

The key to their claim is ACCIDENTAL GUN DEATHS.  That means if your child (or someone else) takes the gun and kills someone deliberately, that figure isn't in this.

Other data paints a different picture:
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/news/press/2000pres/20000724.html
States that in 1998 only about 4000 children and teens died from firearms.  Down from almost 6000 in 1994.

[N0WVA]

If parents would teach thier kids hands-on lessons about guns early on, we wouldnt have this ignorant problem.

This kind of stuff has been on the upswing because panty-waist parents are scared to death of a firearm, giving the kid a sense of mystery and awe about guns, where they should be learning respect.

I had guns when I was 12 years old, and I never though about mis-using one. I never got one out unless I was hunting or target practicing.....

Or I would have gotten the ass-whooping of my life......

[ka3zlr]

Ah the Magic of "the fear of God...The Old Man...and the Strap"... LOL....Not allowed to do that Today...That's a No No....