Doctors vs. Guns (letter to the editor)greenspun.com : LUSENET : Freedom! self reliance : One Thread |
(Friend of mine gave this to me this morning - it's a letter to the editor of the Rock River Times, Rockford, IL don't know what date.)"Dear Editor, Here are the statistics for doctors versus guns.
Number of physicians in the U.S.: 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 U.S.: 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 (most) everyone has at least one doctor.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand."
-- Bonnie (chilton@stateline-isp.com), July 12, 2001
A friend sent me this as an email awhile ago. Good one!!
-- Doreen (animalwaitress@yahoo.com), July 13, 2001.
Hoorah for this doctor!!Have to admit - it struck me as so funny, I had to send it out... I tried to not send it to anybody here, but forgive if I missed you on the list, lol!
-- Sue Diederich (willow666@rocketmail.com), July 13, 2001.