----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Recipient list suppressed>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 7:03 AM
Subject: [Fwd:] Re: Gun Control
> Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000.
> Accidental deaths per physician.... 0.171
> (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
>
> Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000.
> Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) 1,500.
> Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188
>
> Statistically, therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more
> dangerous than gun owners.
>
> FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor.
>
> Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors
> before this gets out of hand.
>
Ah, its not a cost, but a cost/benifit question. How many lives are saved
by the use of handguns per year?
Dan M.
