A Little Gun Humor

I received this in an e-mail.  Snopes.com didn't have anything on it, but www.truthorfiction.com said that the numbers were close to accurate.  Well, actually, they said that the numbers for guns were out of whack, but the numbers that they found actually make the statistics for guns better than listed here.  

I didn't feel like trying to figure out what the statistics were with the Truth or Fiction numbers.  I suck at math, so figured I'd let one of the math geniuses out there do it!

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Gun Owners

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.

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  .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 9000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a  gun owner!!!

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.

We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!

Out of concern for the public at large,

I withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!