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Friday, May 12, 2006

Who is more dangerous, Doctors or Gun Owners?

Doctors:
1. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000
2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000
3. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171
(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services.)

Guns:
1. The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000
2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500
3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
(Statistics courtesy of F.B.I.)

Courtesy of James Hudnall :

http://jameshudnall.com/blog.php?/weblog/whos_more_dangerous/

No word on gun owning doctors...

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