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Doctors, on the other hand, account for 120,000 accidental patient deaths per year. That figure is oft quoted in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Remember that the numbers for gun owner accidents are often self inflicted. Virtually all doctor-induced accidental deaths happen to someone other than physicians. -courtesy of the National Rifle Associations publication; America's First Freedom, August 2001 Article entitled"The Real Danger?" Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict * Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day.1 This means that each year, firearms are used more than 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.2 * Of the 2.5 million self-defense cases, as many as 200,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.3 * Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).4 And readers of Newsweek learned in 1993 that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The "error rate" for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."5 * Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.6 * Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year.7 Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials." -courtesy of Gun Owners of America, 3/25/01...12:31 p.m. e.s.t. * 3/5 of felons polled agreed that "a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."20 * 74% of felons polled agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime."21 * 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."22 -courtesy of Gun Owners of America, 12/3/00...6:55 p.m. e.s.t. |
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