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Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
Doctors vs. 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.
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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
.0000188
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately
9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!
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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,
We withheld the statistics on
lawyers
For fear the shock would cause
People to panic and seek medical attention!
Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
I question the sources and numbers of this, but...
It is a little funny. The argument against gun owners for years has been absurd. No different than weed being a gateway drug. If weed is a gateway drug, than drinking milk is a gateway to weed, etc.
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Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
That is funny...but just in case you are serious....it's classic bad logic...as you are comparing only accidental deaths....yes it's statisticly more likely that a doctor will kill you by accident than a gun owner will kill you by accident...but that's because the gun owner is intending to kill you in most situations!
Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
People go to hysteria over a few deaths, like we were meant to live forever.
Couldn't agree more. I have no problem with humans cherishing life and avoiding death and especially murder, as it is what makes humanity.
But we can go overboard with it at times. We're still organisms, and guns for humans are like lions for debras. Is what it is. Some adapt, some don't.
Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl … y-20110310
Time For Gun Control — If Only to Tweak the Tea Party
POSTED: March 10, 8:16 AM ET | By Matt Taibbi
Time For Gun Control — If Only to Tweak the Tea Party
Pennsylvania Tea Party Coalition Patriots at the State Capitol building in Harrisburg, November 14, 2009.
Read the Gail Collins article on guns this morning… I think I’m changing my mind about gun control. I was particularly interested in this passage:
Well, in Florida, a state representative has introduced a bill that would impose fines of up to $5 million on any doctor who asks a patient whether he or she owns a gun. This is certainly a new and interesting concept, but I don’t think we can classify it as a response to Tucson. Jason Brodeur, the Republican who thought it up, says it’s a response to the health care reform act.
The last time I did an election-campaign story, when I went to Kentucky to cover Rand Paul and the Tea Party, I was a little surprised by how many of the Tea Partiers I interviewed had fantasies about the “left” and the government taking their guns away. They talk about it almost like it’s a given, part of some kind of secret plan we all have sealed in envelopes in those orders binders we all have stashed in our attics. And more than once I came across people who genuinely believed that once the guns were taken away, Soviet Communism would instantly be imposed – as if the gun lockers of these soccer moms and beered-up rural selectmen were the only thing currently preventing leftist revolution.
I was never that hot for gun control – much as I hate guns, I always thought making them illegal legitimized things like national drug laws and sodomy bans – but now I’m beginning to think that pushing for gun control is a good idea, if only because there’s nothing else that will nauseate and terrify Tea Partiers more. To me, the right-wing fascination with guns is such an obviously Freudian phenomenon that it’s almost embarrassing; real and very justified fears of creeping political impotence, idiotically and self-defeatingly expressed in passionate defense of their right to shoot themselves in tragic domestic accidents. Going after Republicans’ gun rights has always seemed to me needlessly provocative and cruel, sort of like removing the tinfoil helmet your local schizophrenic thinks is protecting him from space rays.
But now the paranoia has now gone so far, it’s just too tempting not to tweak. There’s got to be some way to pursue a new gun-control law that would maximally freak out this growing population of people who literally sleep with their guns at night.
How about a new law requiring all registered handgun owners to wear white Kevlar Clockwork Orange-style jockstraps? Or how about a new campaign – and this one I actually like – in which all of us who do not have guns voluntarily send in letters to the ATF, cheerfully informing them of our unarmed status (“Dear Government Agent: In case you were keeping a database of such information…”).
Seriously, if laws are really being pursued now stripping bans on guns at college campuses, there has to be some kind of backlash – this has really gotten out of hand.
Re: Doctors vs. Gun Owners ~ A floating email FWD~
I still am pro-gun, and I still feel more comfortable having them, specifically a concealed weapon, but I do not, nor will I ever (short of a zombie invasion) need to walk down the street with an assault rifle stapped to my fuckin' back.
Gun rights are fine, and I do not believe most right-wingers are paranoid about guns being taken away, other than enforcing the 2nd Amendment, which is fine.
But I will confess, I know friends and certain family members who are Tea Partiers, and god damn are they gun nuts. This guy is totally right. They have this almost delusional idea that guns are going to be taken away at any second, and a Socialist rule will sweep America. Not that I really understand that paranoia. For the common working man, Socialism would actually be a pro. But like always, the poor seem to have this willingness to lose blood and die for the rich to get richer like always in the capitalist society America prides itself on.
But I digress, I don't care either way, I just find it funny at times.
But the Tea Partiers need to back it down a notch on the guns. They look like a lunatic fringe, and the amount of pants they run through cumming all over themselves about Sarah Palin being a hunter - that gets old too. Good Sarah Palin knows how to use a gun, I know how to use one too, who cares.
