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Old April 20th 04, 07:23 AM
Mike Terry
 
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Interesting, is there a programme on shortwave about this please?

Regards

Mike


"Charles Gillen" wrote in message
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Al Patrick wrote:

Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171
Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun
owners.


A peversely false analogy, because doctor-caused deliberate killings are
very few, while gun-related non-accidental fatalities are extremely
numerous, as any big-city resident can tell you.

All this is off-topic, but gun-nuts should be screwed down every time they
get loose.

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