Re: The right to bear arms & make salad

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

How about dealing with Medical Malpractice, 195,000 at least in 2004:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php 

But the AMA jumps on the anti-gun bandwagon:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2001/12/17/edca1217.htm

Despite the number of total deaths for the most recent year available
(2001) being only 29,573

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/frmdth.htm

And accidents under 1000, which, considering there are over 200M
firearms in the US, is a paltry accident rate.

Physicians, heal thyselves.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of 
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: Richard M. Smith
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] The right to bear arms & make salad
>
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:55:31 CDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:
>
> > In the US (population c. 298.5m) there were an estimated 16,137 
> > homicides in
> > 2004 (FBI, 2006a) - a rate of about 5.4 per 100,000. Of 
> these, 10,654 
> > were carried out with guns (FBI, 2006b).
>
> How many people died in car crashes in 2004?
>
> How many people died from tobacco and alcohol related issues in 2004?
>
> How many people died from weight-related issues in 2004?
>
> If we're looking at banning stuff because people are dying, 
> let's at least save more lives by banning cars, tobacco, 
> alcohol, and fat people.

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