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.
Stephen