dave_rusin
11-25-2003, 06:41 AM
This little tidbit comes from the Vol. 2003, Issue 5 of the e-newsletter Periscope from Private Arena.
Enjoy...
"~~~ DOCTORS MORE DEADLY THAN FIREARMS
Trusting government to protect our lives and our liberties is not in the American tradition, nor is it supported by data or experience from anywhere else in the world. It is a formula for tyranny. Want some statistics to play with? There are over 200 million firearms in the U.S. but fewer than 25,000 firearms deaths of all types per year. This includes bad guys as well as innocents. In other words there is annually 1 death associated with every 8,000 firearms. Contrast this with a 1990 Harvard Medical School study that reported over 100,000 deaths per year from "medical misadventure,' a polite term for fatal doctor or hospital mistakes. There are roughly 500,000 doctors
(allopaths) in America, so that amounts to 1 death per every 5 MD's. So a doctor, on average, is 1,600 times more deadly than a firearm. Tell me, America, shall we ban doctors?"
:shock:
Enjoy...
"~~~ DOCTORS MORE DEADLY THAN FIREARMS
Trusting government to protect our lives and our liberties is not in the American tradition, nor is it supported by data or experience from anywhere else in the world. It is a formula for tyranny. Want some statistics to play with? There are over 200 million firearms in the U.S. but fewer than 25,000 firearms deaths of all types per year. This includes bad guys as well as innocents. In other words there is annually 1 death associated with every 8,000 firearms. Contrast this with a 1990 Harvard Medical School study that reported over 100,000 deaths per year from "medical misadventure,' a polite term for fatal doctor or hospital mistakes. There are roughly 500,000 doctors
(allopaths) in America, so that amounts to 1 death per every 5 MD's. So a doctor, on average, is 1,600 times more deadly than a firearm. Tell me, America, shall we ban doctors?"
:shock: