Why buy a gun?

[Mackie2k]

I love this study:

Article

First, according to statistics provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, there is an interesting correlation between accidental deaths caused by guns and by doctors.

Doctors: (A) There are 700,000 physicians in the U.S. (B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians total 120,000 per year. (C) Accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.

Guns: (A) There are 80 million gun owners in the U.S. (B) There are 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups. (C) The percentage of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.0000188.

Statistically, then, doctors are 9,000 times more dangerous to the public health than gun owners. Fact: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR. Following the logic of liberals, we should all be warned: "Guns don't kill people. Doctors do."

 

[Ruptga]

R

 

[xanis]

L-L-L-LINK FAILURE

 

[rivan]

Repost. It's also probably on Snopes. And my email archives from 1997.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Xanis
L-L-L-LINK FAILURE

It's a tease link. 🙁

 

[Jeeebus]

if the original was a fail thread, then what's the algebraic calculation of how much fail is contained in the repost?