What is going to kill you?

[Guest walkingdeadman]

Doctors vs. Gun Owners

Doctors

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

( Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

© Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

Now think about this:

Guns

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

(Yes, that's 80 million)

( The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

© The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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

Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT Almost everyone has at least one doctor. This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!!!

This made my opens a little bit when I read it. Crazy stuff.

[Guest jackdm3]

"This made my opens a little bit when I read it. Crazy stuff."

What's that last sentence?

[Guest faust921]

insert "eyes"

[Guest Bronker]

Precisely why it's called 'practice.'

Not quite good at it yet.

[Ebow1]

Beautiful. I'm using that one in my speech arguing for concealed carry on campus.

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

I may have posted this here before?....Old and CRS ya know:rolleyes:

But it supports the stats given by the OP. Although accidental shootings are not included.

It does not run in "real time" but rather on the stats as provided by the links at the bottom.

Doctor accident every 2 minutes 42 seconds

Firearm homicide every 48+ minutes

An interesting note is at the bottom of a firearm preventing a death or saving a life......and like I said it is based on stats.....stats can only be compiled if something is reported.

I am sure the number of times a firearm is used to prevent a crime which could result in a death is much higher because a lot of those incidents go unreported...

FWIW...

Life/Death Clock

[Smith]

While entertaining it is a bad argument. Naturally doctors are going to have vastly more deaths because their interaction is generally with sick, dying, or medically needy people. At first glance it seems a good argument, but it is apples and oranges. It really skews the facts. Just a thought.

[Guest Jamie]

You know, people without guns or doctors die all the time...

Life; nobody gets out alive.

J.

P.S. Booze, cigarettes, and red meat will likely get me, if my wife don't kill me first.

[DWARREN123]

I don't know about the numbers but I have had run in with doctors who almost did me in. One was an incorrect medicine and one was a totally bad prescricption made out to me but for another person.

Both times it would have been bad for me!

[Guest drv2fst]

I think it helps put the anti gun crowds arguments in perspective. There are many far more dangerous things in life to worry about than guns.

[Mike.357]

i thought this was going to be a thread about Bacon, french fries and cheese.

[Guest jackdm3]

Smokes, coke and liquor.

[MCSCOTT]

There are many far more dangerous things in life to worry about than guns.

X2.

I think what will get me will either be cigarettes, or the government will kill me for trying to live by and support the U.S. Constitution.

[ShamGlock]

I'm just glad I made it 30 years without having some crazed, gun-toting, murderin doctor take me out for chasing after his hot rich daughter!

[Guest Catdaddy]

Most likely the IRS or some other gov't agency.