Doctors:
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 Human Services.
Now think about this:
Guns:
The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
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.
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 have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.]
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Fact I’m still going to the Doctor rather than the Gun Owner if ther is something is wrong with my pancreas.
If you have cancer of the pancreas, you better call a pastor, because your time on earth is short.
Well Clay, can I call you Clay? If I had in fact pancreatic cancer my pastor would indeed be one of the people I would call. However, I still wouldn’t call a “Gun Owner” to deal with my medical condition, unless that “Gun Owner” happened to be my oncologist.
So are we clear on this?
p.d. nelson,
Clay is fine
I was merely pointing out that pancreatic cancer is 99.99% fatal.
Jason, there you go bringing facts and logic into the gun control discussion. Don’t you know that guns are scary and owned by rednecks and Republicans, and any right minded person would seek to have them banned. I mean, what better way to control those who break the law than to make something else illegal. Oh wait…
Jason, Jason…proper Biblical studies, but really?
Doctor : Profession
Gun : Object
What about non-accidental deaths per year? Bet guns are 100,000 times more deadly than doctors.
If you lock a gun in a box, no one ever gets hurt.
If you lock a doctor in a box, it eventually becomes smelly.
Advantage: Gun
Guns are easily dismantled, cleaned and put back together again.
Doctors aren’t easily dismantled, only are clean when they are operating and if you need to put them back together again they had bigger problems to begin with.
Advantage: Guns
Guns are able to shoot targets, games and intruders.
Doctors are able to shoot poor scores on the golf course.
Advantage: Guns
Guns are fairly affordable for the middle class and lower-income families.
Doctors are only affordable for middle class and lower-income families if they have insurance.
Advantage: Guns
Some gun purchases require a one-week waiting period.
Some doctors have waiting rooms that makes it SEEM like it’s been one week before they actually see you.
Advantage: PUSH
Guns come in various calibers.
So do doctors.
Advantage: Push
Thompson/Center Arms once made a 58-calber gun called the “Big Boar”
I once knew a doctor who was known as the “Big Bore.”
Advantage: ? {I just threw that one in for the fun of it.}
WINNER: Guns
It’s so easy when you break it all down.
What about gunowning doctors?
What about gunowning doctors?
They don’t worry about overdue bills.
P D Nelson has now become the definition of taking oneself too seriously.
The purpose of this comment is twofold. The most important is to experiment with the posting system. The second is to respond as a doctor and a surgeon.
Lawyers are far busier dealing with gun crimes than doctor crimes.