Doctors vs. Guns

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:24:04 Post Subject:

If statistics are your thing, check this out. For the year 2001:

Death by unintentional injury in the US: 101,537
Death by suicide: 30,622
Death by terrorist attack in the US: 3,315

So by going with Dad's statistics analysis and logic, you and every other american is more of a threat to you (by far) than any terrorist. Please understand that I am just making a point that statistics displayed in this fashion are hardly taken seriously and are cause for bitter debate.

I am not a fan of guns. I don't want to own one. Ever. However, that doesn't mean I think all guns should be taken away. Like all gun advocates say (and it's true), if you take the guns away, you take them away from those who mean no harm with them. All the criminals' guns are still unaccounted for.

This post is just making a statement against statistics abuse and does not advocate terrorism.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:36:50 Post Subject:

No your 10000000% correct. I can most likely use stats to prove that any one here has had sex with their parents, a farm animal (ok that one might be true) all while wearing a pink toto.

Stats can EASILY be and almost ALWAYS are manipulated to achieve satisfactory end results to the person(s) that are assembling the stats.

dadx2mj · Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:54:10 Post Subject:

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:20:39 Post Subject:

I apologize as I did not intend to attack you dadx2mj. I know that you were posting in jest.

dadx2mj · Posted: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:15:53 Post Subject:

No harm no foul all cool by me just wanted to make it clear