Statistics: Guns v. Physicians
Posted February, 2002

Number of physicians in the US:
700,000.

Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year:
120,000.

Accidental deaths per physician:
0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Number of gun owners in the US:
80,000,000.

Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups):
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. As a Public Health Measure, I have withheld the statistics on Lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical aid.