Guns vs. doctors

Are doctors more dangerous than guns? Consider:

1.The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.

2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.

3. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

A. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.

B. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.

C. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. In both relative and absolute terms, doctors kill more people than guns do.

Doctors also save a lot of lives. Guns, used for protection, do the same thing — though, to my knowledge, nobody tries to track that number. Reporting it would probably be deemed inappropriate by the MSM...