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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17179)9/21/2004 8:53:46 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Laz, maybe that wasn't intended to be serious, but I still have to comment. The relevant statistical comparison is not accidental deaths per physician, but rather per patient. If gun owners face a 0.002% risk of accidental death (of themselves or someone else) at the barrel of their gun each year, then you need to compare that to the risk taken by choosing to be treated by a physician - i.e. accidental deaths per patient, or even patient visits, per year.

Sorry. Gotta call "bull s#!t" when I see it.

;-)
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