1. Number of physicians in the US: 700,000
2. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000
3. Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
4. Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000
5. Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500
6. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188
7. Statistically, physicians are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Fact: Not everyone has a gun, but just about everyone has a physician.
Therefore: Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban physicians 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
