An E-mail sent to me:


INTERESTING FACTS

Number of physicians in the US: 700,000.
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000.
Accidental deaths per physician...0.171 (U.S.Dept.of Health & Human services)
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000.
Number of accidental deaths per year (ALL age groups) 1,500.
Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

"FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but 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 aid.