Number of physicians in the US: 700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health) Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188 Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one doctor." Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health measure, the statistics on lawyers were withheld for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical aid.