you are more than welcome, cw. kinda puts the whole gun hysteria in perspective.
On Jan 20, 6:50 am, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > My doctor (a dear friend of my now deceased husband) carries a gun so he > must be *really* f'in DANGEROUS! Thanks for that mark. I needed it today. > > CW > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ohio mark" <[email protected]> > To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 06:44 > Subject: doctors vs gun owners > > (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. > > 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 FBI > > So, 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. > Please alert your friends > to this > alarming threat. > We must ban doctors > before this gets completely out of hand!!!!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
