Title: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: D on July 31, 2010, 11:30:41 PM 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. 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 .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. This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!!! Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!! Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: Loaded NightraiN on July 31, 2010, 11:36:26 PM What are the numbers for intentional gun deaths a year?
Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: zihuatenajo on August 01, 2010, 02:02:25 AM What are the numbers for intentional gun deaths a year? Agreed. and that is obviously 80 million gun owners with registered guns because it came from the FBI. Doctors may kill more people accidentally than guns do , gun owners - legal or illegal - kill more people purposely than doctors :yes: Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: D on August 01, 2010, 02:09:23 AM According to this http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
unless i am reading it wrong... just over 12k gun homicides. Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: zihuatenajo on August 01, 2010, 02:24:48 AM I don't know where you learned math D , or who gave you your high school diploma : but 12,632 is more than " just over 12k " :hihi: it is over twelve and a half thousand!
And either way : ?Number of deaths: 12,632 ?Deaths per 100,000 population: 4.2 Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2007, tables B, 18 they be old statistics amigo edit : incase my point wasn't clear : yes , you are indeed reading it horribly wrong Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: D on August 01, 2010, 03:56:30 PM but Dr's still accidentally kill more people per yet. and there are a lot less doctors than gun owners.
Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: zihuatenajo on August 01, 2010, 09:42:48 PM agreed
Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: horsey on August 12, 2010, 12:57:11 PM you know i really trust god with the weed thing lol.
but really illegal guns are not on statisics.and most homicides are from them. the guns on the streets are worse then any dr's sorry.to know it is to live it. Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: polluxlm on August 17, 2010, 10:38:26 PM but Dr's still accidentally kill more people per yet. and there are a lot less doctors than gun owners. Careful now, the government may accuse you of being logical. Pretty sure that's a felony. Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: nekomex on August 18, 2010, 02:27:16 AM i know this is a kind of joke topic, but the Accidental deaths caused by Physicians is a difficult thing to judge, i mean are they talking about the patient being healthy and then the doctor killing him by mistake with a bad decision? or are they talking about an ill person and then the doctor making a decision that contributed to the patient dying?
i mean obviously if you are treating ill persons some are going to die and it could be counted as a mistake because the decision is made some times in seconds. by this logic you could say that "x" doctor kills more persons than a serial killer does. but how many people doctors save in comparision to the ones that die, and how many lives does gun owners save? Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: Genesis on August 18, 2010, 06:20:20 AM Compare intentional gun deaths with intentional murders by doctors. That should be an interesting statistic.
Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: polluxlm on August 18, 2010, 02:19:49 PM Compare intentional gun deaths with intentional murders by doctors. That should be an interesting statistic. Not really. Point he's trying to make is that banning guns is pretty pointless when you look at the damage they really do. Title: Re: Doctors vs Gun Owners Post by: Mysteron on August 22, 2010, 06:24:31 PM D, are you genuinely that backward?
Guns kill people: Doctors cure people who are needing help or they may die. Why would you compare the two : ??? You are effectively comparing natural death with unnatural death. |