HandGuns and Doctors

[Kymberley]

Facinating info!

Subject: Just in case you were wondering...


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 deathsper 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.

Remember: guns don't kill people, doctors do.

 

[Weevil]

Fascinating study. Here's a question about it.

What percentage of gun deaths are accidental?

 

[Kymberley]

GRRRRRRR!!!! EBW

Can't you just laugh at that cute little joke and not make me have to go find all that info?

 

[Weevil]

No. Because it's kind of obnoxious. I'm sure Doctors kill more people accidently than the Nuclear Bomb ever has

 

[Kymberley]

Although I really was not wanting to go there...cuz I don't want to start a pro or con debate with just a funny joke....


Firearms-Related Death Rate by Age
In 1997 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were 1,500 accidental deaths involving firearms in the U.S. This is a rate of .6 per 100,000. (Source: National Safety Council's 1998 Accident Facts)

Age breakdown for accidental shooting deaths in 1996:
0-4 years: 40 deaths
5-14 years: 180 deaths
15-24 years: 450 deaths
25-44 years: 450 deaths
45-64 years: 240 deaths
65-74 years: 80 deaths
75+ years: 60 deaths
[Source: National Safety Council's 1998 Accident Facts]

In 1995, there were 12.8 non-fatal firearms related injury for each accidental death. (Source: National Safety Council's 1998 Accident Facts)

Accidental Firearms-Related Deaths Compared to Other Causes of Accidental Death (1997)
1. Motor vehicles: 43,200 deaths
2. Falls: 14,900 deaths
3. Poisoning by solids or liquids: 8,600 deaths
4. Drowning: 4,000 deaths
5. Fires, burns and related deaths: 3,700 deaths
6. Suffocation by swallowing object: 3,300 deaths
7. Firearms-related: 1,500 deaths
8. Poisoning by gases and vapors: 700 deaths
9. All other causes (including medical "misadventures"): 13,900
Total deaths: 93,800
(Source: National Safety Council's 1998 Accident Facts)

 

[Weevil]

Well that didn't answer the question at all.

 

[floridaguy64]

Total Combined Figures.............

Well that didn't answer the question at all.

The total combined average of all types of hand gun deaths in America is 38,000..................... according to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.270.

But then again, that includes accidents, murder, self defense, the cops.................................. and after all, the people that came up with those figures are doctors (wouldn't you know)....................


Can't live with em, can't live without em.................... LOL

 

[Weevil]

Are those hand gun deaths or any kind of gun deaths?

and what does "total combined average" mean?

 

[Kymberley]

Gun deaths show decline


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With HOLLY PARKER
Globe-News Staff Writer

Thanks to a booming economy, falling crime rates and tougher gun control laws, Americans were much less likely to die from gun-related incidents in 1997 than in 1993, according to a new report.

The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that gun deaths in the United States dropped 21 percent over the five-year period, and nonfatal firearm-related injuries fell 41 percent.

The study looked at all gunshot wounds - whether intentional, accidental or self-inflicted - reported at emergency rooms.

In Amarillo, intentional gun-related deaths remained steady in 1997 and 1998. Both years Amarillo Police Department detectives investigated seven cases where a gun was used during the commission of a homicide. So far this year, only four gun-related homicides have been investigated.

Statistics from accidental, self-inflicted and nonfatal firearm-related incidents were not available by press time today.

The report said there were 39,595 gun-related deaths in 1993, about 15.4 per 100,000 people. That number fell to 32,436 in 1997, about 12.1 per 100,000.

The death rate "is the lowest it's been since the mid-'60s," said J. Lee Annest, a CDC statistician. "This progress is really encouraging and really says that joint prevention efforts of public health officials, legislators and law enforcement should continue."

The drop was not unexpected: Homicide rates in the 1990s have fallen to levels not seen since the 1960s, and about two-thirds of all homicides are committed with guns.

Amarillo's homicide information collected since 1994 show that gun deaths show no specific pattern. Excluding 1994, when Amarillo recorded a record 29 homicides, including 17 gun-related homicides, the city averages less than 20 homicides a year. In 1996, 11 gun-related homicides occurred and five occurred in 1995.

The latest figures also include suicides and accidental deaths, both of which dropped by 10.9 percent and 38.1 percent, respectively.

Nonfatal shootings fell from 104,390 to 64,207 in the same period, or from 40.5 per 100,000 to 24.0.

Bill Manown, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said the numbers prove that more gun laws aren't needed; the laws on the books need to be enforced.

"It is a fact that this substantial drop in gun violence directly correlated to a big increase in gun enforcement by police," said Lawrence W. Sherman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied gun policy. "Police were not treating guns in a preventive sense prior to 1993 and now they are."

But gun control advocates said the recent focus of keeping guns away from criminals also should be expanded to include those who are emotionally distraught.

"This is something we've known is a problem, but society needs to wake up and address it," said Nancy Hwa, spokeswoman for Handgun Control and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.

Some experts also credit a strong economy that has helped reduce overall crime and suicide attempts. Margaret A. Zahn, a North Carolina State University criminology professor, said prosperity has allowed governments to spend more on services that prevent gun violence, such as domestic-violence shelters and youth recreation programs.

The CDC also listed such possible factors as an aging population and the waning of the crack trade.

Gun control advocates said they are encouraged, but pointed out that even so, an average of 265 people a day were shot in 1997.

"People shouldn't be satisfied," Hwa said. "Everybody is still at risk, and the presence of guns should still be a major concern."

 

[floridaguy64]

Strictly hand gun related

Are those hand gun deaths or any kind of gun deaths?

and what does "total combined average" mean?

according to the report in the N E Journal of Med.........................

There are all kind of report sights that you can go to that will dispell many myths about guns and gun control.


And BTW.............................. I have never known a gun to have a brain, yet I'm sure I've met a few doctors in my life that were borderline brain dead......................

 

[Weevil]

Man, just imagine. 40,000 people a year dead. What was it, 60,000 lost in the whole Vietnam war?

Yikes.

 

[Kymberley]

And now back to the original joke....

 

[floridaguy64]

I still like the guns to Doctors ratio better...........

And now back to the original joke....

What is it....................... 3 to 1 ...................... Docs over guns....... sheeeeesh!

 

[Always]

EBW, that was stated in the original post.


I though it was funny, Kym.

 

[Kymberley]

Re: I still like the guns to Doctors ratio better...........

What is it....................... 3 to 1 ...................... Docs over guns....... sheeeeesh!

Sumtin like that!!!!

 

[Shylady]

Kym I like the joke

 

[floridaguy64]

EBW, that was stated in the original post.


I though it was funny, Kym.

Hey Always................. just finally noticed your self description....... Now that's funny!!!!!!!!!! And here I thought that I was the only one, LOL !

 

[Kymberley]

Thank you Shy, Always, and floridaguy.

I got a kick out of it.