Doctors:
(A) The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
(B) Accidental death caused by physicians per year is 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Guns
(A) The number of guns in the US is about 80,000,000.
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year is 1,500.
(C) The number of of accidental deaths per gun is 0.000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 time more dangerous than guns.

Remember: "Guns don't kill people, Doctors kill people".

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 seek medical attention.

Now, it would be really funny, if it were not true!