Guns-
Which is more dangerous, Guns or Doctors?
GUNS DON'T KILL –
DOCTORS DO A
recent article appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer concerning accidental
deaths caused by physicians, from research of Laura Key USA. This triggered a
chain of thought that resulted in the person cruising the web finding some statistics
and doing a few calculations.
Number of physicians in the US = 700,000;
Accidental deaths caused per year
= 120,000;
Accidental deaths / physician = 0.171
Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000;
Number of accidental gun deaths/year
(all age groups) = 1,500;
Accidental deaths/gun owner = 0.00001875
Ratio 0.171 / 0.00001875
= 9120
Therefore, Doctors are approximately 9000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
(Baptist Information Service Editorial written by Kevin Murphy)
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