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Turbo Monkey
Nov 29, 2001
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Boston Area
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) Therefore accidental deaths per physician is
> 0.171.
> Statistics courtesy of the U.S. Dept of Health and
> Human Services.
>
> Guns:
> (A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is
> 80,000,000. Yes, that's 80
> million.
> (B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year,
> for all age groups,
> is 1,500.
> (C) Therefore the number of accidental deaths per
> gun owner is
> 0.00001875.
> Statistics courtesy of the F.B.I.
>
> Statistically, doctors are over 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
> immediately. We must
> ban doctors before this gets completely out of
> hand!!!!!
>
> Out of concern for the public at large, I have
> withheld the statistics
> on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to
> panic and seek
> medical attention.
 

ALEXIS_DH

Tirelessly Awesome
Jan 30, 2003
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Lima, Peru, Peru
no, wait... how many people that get shot actually die??
that be a more fair comparison with doctors, because a dr kills only when at work aiming their hands at a patient......
 

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Turbo Monkey
Nov 29, 2001
1,889
0
Boston Area
Skookum said:
Really anyone with half a brain realizes the faulty logic behind the comparison regardless of where you lie on the gun issue. So if this was posted as a joke, then it's not nearly as funny as BrianHCM's thread but equally as flawed.
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114159
:stupid:
"Internet Fact" is an oxymoron. Received this email yesterday and thought it was funny. Nothing more. Or less. And yes, HCM's thread was funnier.