Certain physicians and others with a socialist political bent are trying to say that gun control is a "health issue." They say we need gun control because of all the accidental gun-related deaths in America.

On the front page of the November 30th, 1999, issue of the USA Today newspaper, a story ran entitled "Medical mistakes 8th top killer." In the article, the medical community estimated that 75,000 deaths occur each year as the result of mistakes made by physicians. This is probably a conservative estimate, but let's run the numbers and see the results.

Number of physicians in the U.S. ..............  700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year . 75,000
Accidental deaths per physician   ................ 0.11
                       (or 1 out of every 10 physicians)

Number of gun owners in the U.S.   .........  80,000,000
Accidental gun deaths per year (all ages)  ......  1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner     ...........  0.00002
                   (or 1 out of every 50,000 gun owners)

Result = doctors are approximately 5,000 times
more dangerous than gun owners!