Guns Don’t Kill People, Doctors Do

Let’s ponder some interesting statistics for a moment…

Doctors:

(A) The number of doctors in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%.

Statistics: courtesy of the U.S.Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(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 0.001875%.

Statistics: courtesy of the FBI

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Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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Fact: Not everyone has a gun, but almost everyone has at least one doctor.

Remember, guns don’t kill people, doctors do.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

H/T: John Holt via Fred Martinez

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