Posted on 09/10/2001 3:48:59 PM PDT by evad
*Number of physicians in the US: 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year:120,000. Accidental deaths per physician 0.171 (US Dept.of Health & Human Services)
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000.
Number of accidental gun deaths per year 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.
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