Enjoy this one......
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 and is a conservative number.

Now think about this:
Guns:
A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. Yes, that is 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 0.0000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than
gun owners.
Remember, "Guns don't kill people, doctors do."

FACT:
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Is there any way that you can get me the researches of these facts. If so I would love to email this over every list serve that I am on. This is too good!!!

Me and my dad are both gun owners and haven't shot it in at least 6 years, doctors work and do surgeries on people EVERY DAY!! I would think the doctors would get screwed with those statistics...

I had received this in a email from a friend.I`ll ask where she got this from.I did get a kick out of it though.amazing how some people have nothing better to do other than think of these things.LOL

This reminds me of the bumper sticker that says "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun."

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Originally posted by TOW Gunner:
This reminds me of the bumper sticker that says "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun."

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LOL I like that one!

me too..sick, but funny, and gets the point across...

a few problems with this ..
like .. most people don't have a doctor .. most of the poor .. underemployed ..
and a doctor .. like one in a large city emergency department .. might trat 20 or 30 a day .. they may be given incomplete and/or erroneous .. and flat out lies in medical history .. like a guy coimes in with an infected leg .. asked: How long have you had this? oh, couple of days .. well, it's gas gangrene and it's up to his knee .. yeah right .. and an intern or resident might work a 36 hour trick ...
and not all medical malpractice is caused by docs .. it is also caused by nurses .. lab techs .. pharmacy techs .. medical techs ... pharmacies .. like we recently had a couplke of hlospital mislabeled blood types .. another misread lab tests fr AIDS/HIV/HEP .. anbd another pharmacy contaminated some syringes with HEP c ...and here's the other side of the coin ..if doctors are killing off all these people (700,000) .. then why are conservatives so hot to cut off malpractice claims ..
of course I am in full agreement that no one should be allowed to file a malpractice suit, unless it involves me or someone close to me ..LOL ...

holton..shhhh ...too many facts..will confuse and blur the point...

holton,ease up man. its suppose to be funny.chill out a little,like,oh m'god! LOL

then again..maybe it's about time to start with a few serious discussions..think I will start a thread with definite debating potential...

go for it. cool idea. we do have those here.

I used this in an email debate with someone from Doctors Against Handgun Violence. As hard as he tried he couldn't refute the numbers. He always came back with the same old rhetoric. It was actually kind of pathetic.

Gotta save that for future use.

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Originally posted by Joe:
Is there any way that you can get me the researches of these facts. If so I would love to email this over every list serve that I am on. This is too good!!!

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Joe, either the NRA site or Gun Owners of America might have the validation you are looking for.

Yeah, and prominently placed on the outside of my Drs Office is "NO GUNS ALLOWED", LMFAO !! We don't need guns, he stands more of a chance of killing someone than I do !!