Interesting Gun Stats

[Dave49]

Doctors

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians, per year, are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171

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

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Now think about this:
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(Yes, that's 80 million)

(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 .0000188

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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

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

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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT,
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!

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

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Out of concern for the public at large, we withheld the statistics on Lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!
Sorry GL

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

In that cause we better ban doctors not guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonder if the AMA will get on our band wagon?

[Svickstc]

Interesting and funny stat none the less, but comparing the two is quite out of context. The guns are not putting humans on the operating table and trying to save lives, reconstruct, etc as well as many other things not taken into account

[IronSight]

Interesting and funny stat none the less, but comparing the two is quite out of context. The guns are not putting humans on the operating table and trying to save lives, reconstruct, etc as well as many other things not taken into account

That's part of the point though. By comparing the two you show how incomparable such things really are and how looking at base statistics alone is an absurd way to look at complex issues. Doctors, like guns, are used far more times for good than they are otherwise.

You don't solve medical accidents by banning doctors, just like you don't solve gun violence by banning guns.

[legendarylorot]

I swear I've seen this on this forum in the last month. Other than that, yes it's just proof that Statistics is the science of getting one set of facts to say two totally different things.

[biddy]

Interesting and funny stat none the less, but comparing the two is quite out of context. The guns are not putting humans on the operating table and trying to save lives, reconstruct, etc as well as many other things not taken into account

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php


nice little article, it's a little old but still eye opening for me