Here's a response to your guns in Australia article.
-Lynn
> Something to think about!!
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Gun statistics
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Some Startling Statistics...
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Number of physicians in the U.S.
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700,000
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Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year
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120,000
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Accidental deaths per physician
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0.171
> Number
of gun owners in the U.S.
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80,000,000
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> Number of accidental gun
deaths per year (all age groups)
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1,500
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Accidental deaths per gun owner
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0.0000188
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Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than
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gun owners.
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Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the
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seventeenth of November, 1999
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Please pass this on!!!!
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>Subject: Results of the first year after gun
confiscation in Australia
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>Orange County
Register Letters to the Editor Section 8/4/99:
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>It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced to
>surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, a program costing
>the government more than $500 million dollars. And now the results are
>in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2percent; Australia-wide,
>assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44
>percent (yes, 44 percent). In the state of Victoria, homicides with
>firearms are
up 300 percent. Figures
over the previous 25 years show a
>steady decrease in armed
robbery with
firearms(changed drastically in
>the past 12 months). There has been a dramatic increase in break-ins and
>assaults of the elderly.
>Australian politicians are on the spot and at a
loss to explain how no
>improvement in "safety" has been observed
after such monumental effort
>and expense
was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns."
>Bet you won't see this data on the evening news or
hear your governor
>or
members of the state
Assembly disseminating this information. It's
>time to
state it plainly: Guns in the
hands of honest citizens save
>lives and
property and, yes, gun-control
laws only affect the law-abiding
>citizens.
>
>Take note, Californians and other Americans, before it's too late!
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0
transitional//en">Here's a response to your guns in Australia article.
-Lynn
Something to think about!!
Gun statistics
Some Startling Statistics...
Number of physicians in the U.S.
700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year
120,000
Accidental deaths per physician
0.171
Number of gun owners in the U.S.
80,000,000
Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups)
1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner
0.0000188
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more
dangerous than gun owners.
Taken from the Benton County NewsTribune on the
seventeenth of November, 1999
Please pass this on!!!!