Guns and doctors

[Ramboy]

> > > > Here is a little thing sent out from the office of Charlston Heston:

> > > >

> > > > 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.

 

[EMDDIESEL]

 

[NVR FNSH]

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

A couple of questions:



1. How is the number of gun owners determined? I suspect this number is way low.



2. Define 'accidental'. What is the TOTAL number of gun deaths per year (excluding self-defense & 'clean' police shootings)? I suspect this number is considerbly higher than 1500.



Does this change the 'accidental' deaths per owner? I don't know but I seriously question the data used to calculate this statistic.



Brian

 

[Timinator]

It doesn't matter how they are calculated, just remember that we don't have a Constitutional right to have a doctor.

 

[Ramboy]

NVR FNSH,

The whole piece is "tongue in cheek". It wasn't meant to be statistically correct and precise. Lighten up.

 

[NVR FNSH]

Ramboy,

I know it is a tongue in cheeck piece but this same 'statistic' was thrown out in the Hide your handgun thread last week.



Brian

 

[DieselDoghouse]

Physician, heal thyself!

'Course how many of those deaths (they're called uh-oh's in medical school) are attributable to residents in the 36th hour of their 40-hour shift?? Gimme the doc whose got grass stains from the 16th hole or is just washing the fish scales off his/her hands!! "A rested mind will the grave wound bind!!"