Guns Dont Kill People...

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I couldn't help but think of Dr. JJ when I read this one.
 
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!!!!!


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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!
 
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Nice, will pass on to my medical school companions... little did we know we were being trained to be killers!
 
Let's look at auto accidents too eh?

More stats below.
Unintentional Drowning: Fact Sheet

Overview

Every day, about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger. Drowning is the sixth leading cause of unintentional injury death for people of all ages, and the second leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 14 years.1
How big is the problem?
  • In 2007, there were 3,443 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) in the United States, averaging ten deaths per day. An additional 496 people died from drowning in boating-related incidents.1,2
  • More than one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger.1 For every child who dies from drowning, another four received emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.1
  • More than 55% of drowning victims treated in emergency departments require hospitalization or transfer for higher levels of care (compared to a hospitalization rate of 3-5% for all unintentional injuries).1 These injuries can be severe.
  • Nonfatal drownings can cause brain damage that may result in long-term disabilities including memory problems, learning disabilities, and permanent loss of basic functioning (e.g., permanent vegetative state).
Who is most at risk?
  • Males: Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning are male.1
  • Children: Children ages 1 to 4 have the highest drowning rates. In 2007, among children 1 to 4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, almost 30% died from drowning.1 Fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years.3
  • Minorities:
    • Between 2000 and 2007, the fatal unintentional drowning rate for African Americans across all ages was 1.3 times that of whites. For American Indians and Alaskan Natives, this rate was 1.7 times that of whites.1
    • Rates of fatal drowning are notably higher among these populations in certain age groups. The fatal drowning rate of African American children ages 5 to 14 is 3.1 times that of white children in the same age range. For American Indian and Alaskan Native children, the fatal drowning rate is 2.3 times higher than for white children.1
    • Factors such as the physical environment (e.g., access to swimming pools) and a combination of social and cultural issues (e.g., wanting to learn how to swim, and choosing recreational water-related activities) may contribute to the racial differences in drowning rates. Current rates are based on population, and not on participation. If rates could be determined by actual participation in water-related activities, disparity in minorities drowning rates compared to whites would be much greater.4

Playground Injuries: Fact Sheet

Overview

Each year in the United States, emergency departments treat more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger for playground-related injuries (Tinsworth 2001).
Occurrence and Consequences
  • About 45% of playground-related injuries are severeâ€"fractures, internal injuries, concussions, dislocations, and amputations (Tinsworth 2001).
  • About 75% of nonfatal injuries related to playground equipment occur on public playgrounds (Tinsworth 2001). Most occur at schools and daycare centers (Phelan 2001).
  • Between 1990 and 2000, 147 children ages 14 and younger died from playground-related injuries. Of them, 82 (56%) died from strangulation and 31 (20%) died from falls to the playground surface. Most of these deaths (70%) occurred on home playgrounds (Tinsworth 2001).
Cost

In 1995, playground-related injuries among children ages 14 and younger cost an estimated $1.2 billion (Office of Technology Assessment 1995).
Groups at Risk
  • While all children who use playgrounds are at risk for injury, girls sustain injuries (55%) slightly more often than boys (45%) (Tinsworth 2001).
  • Children ages 5 to 9 have higher rates of emergency department visits for playground injuries than any other age group. Most of these injuries occur at school (Phelan 2001).
Risk Factors
  • On public playgrounds, more injuries occur on climbers than on any other equipment (Tinsworth 2001).
  • On home playgrounds, swings are responsible for most injuries (Tinsworth 2001).
  • A study in New York City found that playgrounds in low-income areas had more maintenance-related hazards than playgrounds in high-income areas. For example, playgrounds in low-income areas had significantly more trash, rusty play equipment, and damaged fall surfaces (Suecoff 1999).
 
Perfect record!

Actually, I personally think these stats are not correct.
They are using deaths by those attended by a Doctor.
ER Doctors see people that die no matter what they do, but they are "in their care".
Terminal patients from cancer and other diseases are also included in the stats, as they are "in the care".
This is the reason stats can misconstrued to show what ever the statistician wants it to show.

One has to take any of them with a grain of salt.
 
Three kinds of lies:
Lies, damn lies and statistics.

My guess is the doctor v guns thing was written by a lawyer
 
It looks the same here too

New Zealand Births and Deaths 2011

In the December 2011 year:

61,400 live births and 30,080 deaths were registered in New Zealand, resulting in a natural increase (live births minus deaths) of 31,320.

Death by Doctor through medical misadventure and properly prescribed drugs is 3 times higher than the road toll in NZ

The 2011 road toll is 280, as of 30 December. In 2010 there were 375 people killed on our roads, That is ~0.93% 0f all deaths â€" close to one in a hundred

So death by Doctor hovers around 1,000 per year. ~3.3% of all deaths

In contrast 2010/11:

Suicides by all methods 558 â€" with firearms or explosives 38 ( 6.8% of suicides )
Just ~0.13% of all deaths …

Homicide by any means 134 â€" with firearms 11 ( 8.2% of homicides )
Just ~0.037% of all deaths
 
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