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Offline MrBill

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« on: October 09, 2002, 08:49:56 AM »
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)

a. The number of gun owners in the US 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 0.0000188.


   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.
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2002, 08:56:22 AM »
Did you see the report on TV last night that the number of overweight people has ballooned to 59,000,000 Americans?  That's 1 in 5 people!

OUTLAW SPOONS, KNIVES AND FORKS[/SIZE] THEY are the reason that people are fat! Never mind the social behavior, BAN THE SILVER NOW!
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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2002, 09:13:28 AM »
worse.... those stats include suicide and hitting the wrong person in a drive by shooting as "accidental".
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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2002, 09:26:32 AM »
we wouldn't have the sniper problem in MD/DC area if we had stricter gun laws
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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2002, 09:29:52 AM »
I love the bumper sticker:

TED KENNEDYS CAR HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN MY GUN
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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2002, 09:36:34 AM »
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Originally posted by hawk220
I love the bumper sticker:

TED KENNEDYS CAR HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN MY GUN


Oh MAN! Where do I get one?
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Offline N1kPaz

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« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2002, 09:42:51 AM »
as a citizen of the united states, i am willing to accept higher risks of accidental or deliberate slaying in order to protect my right to own a weapon.

its an acceptable risk i am willing to take. why should we limit the freedom of honest, decent gun owners, because some whacko decides to snipe people.

seems a bit reactionary to me...
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2002, 09:55:17 AM »
Eaglers post was tongue in cheek. ;)
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Offline hawk220

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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2002, 10:00:47 AM »
doesn't the DC area have the strictest gun laws in the nation?
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2002, 10:02:34 AM »
Hawk, 2nd only to NYC.  Guess who has the most homocides a year? :D
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« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2002, 10:03:21 AM »
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Eaglers post was tongue in cheek. ;)


not to good at fishing am I :)
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2002, 10:07:50 AM »
Dang, sorry!  Should have known that was your hole, instead, I coming tripping over your tackle box, tangle my boots up in your line, and snap it. :(
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Offline H. Godwineson

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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2002, 10:20:22 AM »
National homicide rates involving firearms posted by the FBI always include, in addition to the actual murders, all justifiable homicides,  whether committed by the police or by law-abiding citizens defending home and family.  The statistics posted about accidental killings of children include anyone below the age of 21, which takes in all the street punks killed by rival gangs.  The actual rate of accidental firearms deaths by children is less than one a day.

Drunks kill far more children on the highways.


Regards, Shuckins
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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2002, 10:23:08 AM »
uh huh.
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Offline MrBill

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« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2002, 10:37:22 AM »
Wow TG, do you realize how many lives would have been saved if the patriots had been armed like that?  Them thar lobster backs woodnt a lasted a month.  :D
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