From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: stats/gun control > > Number of physicians in the US = 700,000 > Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000 > Accidental deaths per physician = 0.17 (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 > (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) > > Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more > dangerous than gun owners. > > Taken from the Benton County News Tribune on the seventeenth of > November, 1999. Please pass this on - you may surprise a lot > of your friends! > > So if gun owners kill doctors will lives be saved??? -- =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= Liberty: Live it . . . or lose it. =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= ET Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics