This might give you something to think about.

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