DOCTORS VS. GUNS: A STUDY

[samvara]

Sent to me by a Canadian friend

Doctors:
1. The number of doctors in Canada is 700,000
2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000
3. Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

Statistics courtesy of the Canadian Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:
1. The number of guns owned in Canada is 80,000,000 (yes that's 80 million)
2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500
3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%

Statistics courtesy of the RCMP

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.

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, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention. Then we would be in real trouble…

...or buy a gun...

Comments

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Er. At risk of sticking my nose where it is not at all wanted - are you posting this in jest, or in seriousness? Would reply with commentary, but want to make sure where you're coming from before I do.

(This is a debate that I see a lot, as I'm in the YAY GUNS country. If you'd like for me to shut up and stay out of it, please feel free to say so and I will.)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Purely in jest; I come from a city where guns appear rarely and usually attached to policemen.

I have never handled or even seen a gun unholstered in real life and find the obsession some countries have with them both amusing and alarming.

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. Sorry - just being here, this is an arguement that I hear quite a lot in total seriousness. So I have this big rant-filled debunking of it, but didn't want to go there unless you were being serious, which I didn't think that you were, but...

Yeah. I'm still doped up from the surgery. Sorry.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

[comfort]

You have my sympathy!

It didn't occur to me that it would be taken in any way but jest.

[ironed_orchid]

It didn't occur to me that it would be taken in any way but jest.

Nor me.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Once again, I am thankful for the country I have been fortunate enough to be born in.

[ironed_orchid]

It's becoming a near daily source of thankfulness for me.

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't suppose that most people from saner places would take it as jest. I was thrown, though, thinking first that it had been posted by someone else in the states and getting ready for the inevitable battle that follows this sort of thing, then seeing that it was you and going 'oh, but -- but she's Australian, and they have such lovely sensible gun control laws!'

It was all very confusing. Thankfully, I'm over it now.