Guns Don't Kill People; Doctors Do

 The following is absolutely not mine. It was forwearded by a friend. I do not know who is the author. But I love the playfulness of the logic.

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) Ratio of accidental deaths per physician is 0.171

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Gun owners:

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000

(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

So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand.

Out of concern for the public at large, we withheld the statistics on lawyers. The shock could cause people to panic and seek medical attention.