This was a close call but evidently the statistics remain intact as this
was, apparently, not an accident. The sister didn't need a doctor so there
was no possibility of an accident there either. Doctors saved the boy's
life so this may be one of the 99.829% of cases where the doctors didn't
screw up.
4-Year-Old Shoots Sister to Death and Wounds His Older Brother
LANDOVER, Md., Sept. 29 A 4-year-old boy shot and killed his sister and
wounded his brother on Saturday, and he understands what he has done, his
father said today.
"He knows," the father, Gregory Thigpen Sr., told The Washington Post for an
article in today's paper. "He's very remorseful. He was apologizing to me."
The boy, Da'Joun Brice, was crying when the police arrived after the
shooting. He had picked up a .45-caliber handgun and pulled the trigger,
shooting Kimberly Brice, 5, and Gregory Thigpen Jr., 7.
......Children's Hospital, where Gregory was recovering from surgery on his
stomach and upper torso. Relatives said the boy was expected to survive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/national/30SHOO.html?th
Of course, this was reported in the liberal elitest media not on Fox so I
take no responsibility for the accuracy of the story. It may have actually
been a gun accident.
> Well, it's been a few weeks since I stirred the muddy water of
> the list with any gun info, so here goes. My daughter sent me
> this so I take no responsibility for the accuracy of the statistics.
>
>
> Statistically Speaking
>
> According to the US Dept. of Health & Human Services
> a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
> b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year
> is 120,000.
> c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
>
> Then think about this:
> a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000
> (yes, eighty million).
> 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, then, doctors are about 9,000 times more
> dangerous than gun
> owners.
>
> FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS A DOCTOR.
>
> Alert your friends to this threat. We must ban doctors before this
> gets out of hand.
>
> (As a public health measure, I have withheld the statistics on
> lawyers, for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical
> attention.)
>
> Robert Houston
> Transervicios S.A. de C.V.
> 915-592-2082
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