Doctors versus Guns

[BBFRN]

My aunt sent me this, and I thought it was funny.

>A little something to ponder over...

>a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.

>b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.

>c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept.of Health & Human Services)

>

>Then think about this:

>a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000 (yes, eighty-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.

>

>Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

>

>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 out of hand. As a public health measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.

[PennyLane, RN]

JMP, if it's any consolation, I'm with you all the way. If guns weren't legal in the first place, we wouldn't "need" guns to protect us from the people who misuse them!

But I agree, this thread is boring. As much as anyone argues their point, they aren't going to sway anyone to their side. At least not people who feel passionate enough about the subject to post a thread here.

[mario_ragucci]

I like to talk about guns. They are still relatively new things, having only been around for about a hundred years. Guns are like swords in that they are double-edged and can be used for both offense and defense. You watch enough chuck norris and charles bronson movies and it's only natural your gonna act like monkey see, monkey do. I fear guns right up until the time I have one in my hand. Then the fear goes the other way.

If I ever got hard up to have a gun, I would just wait around until someone who has one with an inferior action potential sodium ion gate losses theirs to someone else with superior action potentials. Even then, I wouldn't hold it up to my eye because I am a nurse (in 2004) and swore not to harm. I'm sorry :-(

[dspring, RN]

JMP my point was to say that if you don't like how things are run here leave, or in you case being in Canada don't tell me how my country should be run. I hear this same crap at work by a Vietnamese Dr and aDr from India. My very point was if their country was so great why are they here. As for those that think discussions on guns are boring why are you reading the thread? Believe it or not I didn't meanto offend anyone. I have reallystrong feelings regarding gun control.

Dennis

[BBFRN, BSN, PhD]

This thread was started NOT as a forum for a gun control debate. It showed a joke that I received that I thought was funny. It was NEVER intended to start a gun debate in any way. Some people take themselves way too seriously, and I should have predicted the outcome. Please don't jump down someone's throat for calling your debate boring- those people, after all, got the joke and responded appropriately before you guys got on this gun debate tangent and took over. If you want to have a serious debate, by all means, feel free to start your own thread. And as for why I'm reading this thread- it's because I started it.

[SmilingBluEyes]

and with that, lets' close this one. take it to a debate forum or let it go.

[sanakruz, ADN]

some people....