Saturday, July 22, 2006

If guns are outlawed . . .

Here's a great report of a citizen--using a gun, who prevented a knife-wielding perpetrator from committing murder in Memphis. Kudos to Chris Cope for his courage.
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2 comments:

Serr8d said...

Stolen from Slate (who took it from...?) It's all over the world by now...

Statistics: Guns v. Physicians

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 gun 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...

7/23/2006 10:22:00 AM
ned said...

Wow, thanks for the "heads up"! And I won't even try to defend lawyers (though we can be thankful for those working to make life safer on death rows across the country.)

7/23/2006 01:13:00 PM

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