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Facts about
firearms
Current mood:  contemplative
Doctors and
Guns
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.
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in
the U.S.
is 80,000,000.
Yes, that is 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 0.000188 Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times
more dangerous than gun owners.
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