This should be published in every newspaper in the country!!!
Number of physicians in the U.S. = 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 gun deaths per year(all age groups) 1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
" Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one doctor."

Taken from the Benton County News Tribune on the seventeenth of
November, 1999.

The fact that you are 7 times more likely to die at the hands of your doctor then by a bullet is one of my most often quoted statistic. Slim