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.
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
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more negligent than gun owners regarding their obligation to preservation of human life.
Of course, if we ran statistics regarding the number of PURPOSEFUL deaths caused by the same populations, we'd come to the real reason for the shrieking for gun control. However, I just didn't want anyone to be swayed with arguments about "accidental" death due to the negligence of gun owners. The argument is non-sensical, as the aforementioned brief statistical data shows.
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2 comments:
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If you factored in all the deaths from disgruntled techs then you'd have some numbers.
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Love statistics! Georgia just expanded it's permitted gun carry laws much to the dismay of some. The one statistic I never heard in the argument was legal versus illegal shootings by permitted citizens.
It's funny the statistics I want to know are never mentioned and probably not kept.
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