Something to think about. Number of physicians in the U.S............................................................700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year................120,000 Accidental deaths per physician............................................................0.171Number of gun owners in the U.S.........................................................80,000,000 Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) .......1,500 Accidental deaths per gun owner................................................................0.0000188
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the seventeenth of November,1999