Guest guest Posted January 14, 2000 Report Share Posted January 14, 2000 I think yuore fogetting the deliberate deaths caused by gun owners. P. jumbo3-@... wrote: original article:/group/12-step-free/?start=11584 > > A recent article in the (Seattle) Washington Post-Intelligencer > concerning accidental deaths caused by physicians, from research of > Key @ USA Today, triggered a chain of thoughts that resulted in a person > cruising the web for some statistics and doing a few calculations: > > Follow along as we do the math.......... > Number of physicians in the US = 700,000 > Accidental deaths caused by physicians/year = 120,000. > Accidental deaths/physician = 0.171 > > Number of gun owners in US = 80,000,000 !! > Number of accidental gun deaths/year (all age groups) = 1,500 !! > Accidental deaths/gun owner =.0000188 > > Conclusion - > Doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun > owners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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